Assessing the land use of inter-war Britain: A comparison of the First Land Utilisation Survey field sheets and 1:63,360 scale maps

Applied Geography

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 50-62

  Taylor, Katherine J ^a   Walford, Nigel ^a   Short, Brian ^b  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grassland; Heath; Historical GIS; Land utilisation survey; Sussex

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CENSUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FIELD SURVEY; GIS; GRASSLAND; HISTORICAL CARTOGRAPHY; LAND USE CHANGE; MAPPING METHOD;

EAST SUSSEX; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70649085901     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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