Effects of topography and surface roughness in analyses of landscape structure - A proposal to modify the existing set of landscape metrics

Landscape Online

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-14

  Hoechstetter, S ^a   Walz, U ^a   Dang, L H ^a   Thinh, N X ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGICAL URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital elevation models; Neutral landscapes; Patch corridor matrix model; Relief; Roughness parameters

Indexed keywords

EID: 60449095674     PISSN: 18651542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3097/LO.200803     Document Type: Article

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