Landscape spatial dynamics over 38 years under natural and anthropogenic pressures in Mount Lebanon

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 67-75

  Jomaa, Ihab ^a   Auda, Yves ^b   Abi Saleh, Bernadette ^c   Hamzé, Mouïn ^a   Safi, Samir ^c  

^a NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Lebanon)

^b CESBIO   (France)

^c LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Forest regeneration; Fragmentation; Landcover; Landsat TM; Mediterranean; Remote sensing; Spot 5; Urban encroachment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; DEFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING;

FOREST REGENERATION; FRAGMENTATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT TM; MEDITERRANEAN; SPOT 5; URBAN ENCROACHMENT;

REFORESTATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DEFORESTATION; FRAGMENTATION; GRASSLAND; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REGENERATION; SPATIAL PLANNING; SPOT; URBANIZATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST; MONT LIBAN;

CUPRESSUS; JUNIPERUS; QUERCUS;

EID: 45049085430     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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