A stepwise multi-scaled landscape typology and characterisation for trans-regional integration, applied on the federal state of Belgium

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 160-170

  Van Eetvelde, Veerle ^a   Antrop, Marc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; European Landscape Convention; GIS; Landscape characterisation; Landscape metrics

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EUROPEAN LANDSCAPE CONVENTION; LANDSCAPE CHARACTERISATION; LANDSCAPE CHARACTERISTIC; LANDSCAPE CHARACTERS; LANDSCAPE METRICS; PARAMETRIC APPROACH; REGIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS; REGIONAL INTEGRATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

BORDER REGION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASE; FEDERAL SYSTEM; GIS; LAND COVER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; TYPOLOGY;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349186898     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2008.12.008     Document Type: Article

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