Designing erosion management plans in Lebanon using remote sensing, GIS and decision-tree modeling

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 88, Issue 2-4, 2008, Pages 54-63

  Kheir, Rania Bou ^a   Abdallah, Chadi ^a   Runnstrom, Micael ^b   Martensson, Ulrik ^b  

^a NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Lebanon)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Decision trees; Erosion maps; GIS; Landscape units; Structural image classifications

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION MAKING; DECISION TREES; EROSION; INFILTRATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION USE; LANDFORMS; MAPS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOILS;

DECISION TREE MODELING; DECISION TREE REGRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EROSION MAP; LANDSCAPE UNITS; MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES; STRUCTURAL CLASSIFICATION; VISUAL INTERPRETATION;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DECISION MAKING; DESIGN; GIS; GULLY; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAPPING METHOD; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; REMOTE SENSING; RILL; SOIL EROSION;

ASIA; EURASIA; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 54149091193     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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