Assessing regional geodiversity: The Iberian Peninsula

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1433-1445

  Benito Calvo, A ^a,b   Perez Gonzalez A ^a   Magri, O ^b,c   Meza, P ^b  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

Author keywords

DEM; DTM; Geodiversity; GIS; Iberian Peninsula; Spatial pattern analysis; Terrain classification

Indexed keywords

DEM; DTM; GEODIVERSITY; GIS; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SPATIAL PATTERN ANALYSIS; TERRAIN CLASSIFICATION;

SURFACE CHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GEODYNAMICS; GIS; LANDSCAPE; MAP; MORPHOMETRY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TERRAIN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 69749086216     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1840     Document Type: Article

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