The impact of land development regulation on residential tree cover: An empirical evaluation using high-resolution IKONOS imagery

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 94-104

  Landry, Shawn ^a   Pu, Ruiliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental planning; Policy evaluation; Spatial analysis; Tree cover classification; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HOUSING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; URBAN GROWTH;

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; POLICY EVALUATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TREE COVER; URBAN ECOLOGY;

FORESTRY;

DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; IKONOS; LAND USE CHANGE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; POLICY APPROACH; PUBLIC SECTOR; REGULATORY APPROACH; REMOTE SENSING; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; TAMPA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 73549114648     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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