Detecting the land-cover changes induced by large-physical disturbances using landscape metrics, spatial sampling, simulation and spatial analysis

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 6670-6700

  Chu, Hone Jay ^a   Lin, Yu Pin ^a   Huang, Yu Long ^a   Wang, Yung Chieh ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Conditional simulation; Geostatistics; Google Earth; Land cover change; Landscape metrics; Latin hypercube sampling; Remotely sensed images; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL SIMULATIONS; GEO-STATISTICS; GOOGLE EARTHS; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSCAPE METRICS; LATIN HYPERCUBE SAMPLING; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

REMOTE SENSING; SOIL CONSERVATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CATCHMENTS;

EID: 70350018135     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90906670     Document Type: Article

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