Modeling bare ground with classification trees in Northern Spain

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 452-459

  Weber, Keith T ^a   Alados, Concepción L ^b   Bueno, C Guillermo ^b   Gokhale, Bhushan ^c   Komac, Benjamin ^b   Pueyo, Yolanda ^d  

^a GIS Director   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Classification tree analysis; Desertification; Geographic information systems (GIS); Rangelands; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

DESERTIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; GIS; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RANGELAND; REMOTE SENSING; SEMIARID REGION; STEPPE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 70349685238     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/.1/REM-D-09-00065.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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