Monte Carlo simulation of false change in the overlay of misregistered forest vector maps

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 36-45

  De Clercq, Eva M ^a   Clement, Lieven ^a   De Wulf, Robert R ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Error propagation; Forest cover; Pattern metrics; Positional error; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ERROR PROPAGATION; FOREST COVER; PATTERN METRICS; POSITIONAL ERRORS; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

FORESTRY;

FOREST COVER; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND USE CHANGE; MAP; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VECTOR;

ERRORS; FORESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

EID: 63149096681     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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