Mapping urban landscape heterogeneity: Agreement between visual interpretation and digital classification approaches

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-67

  Zhou, Weiqi ^a   Schwarz, Kirsten ^b,c   Cadenasso, M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; Fuzzy set theory; Land cover; Object based classification; Patch classification; Spatial heterogeneity; Urban landscape; Visual interpretation

Indexed keywords

BARE SOIL; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HETEROGENEITY; LAND COVER; PATCHINESS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN AREA; VISUAL ANALYSIS; WATERSHED;

GWYNNS FALLS; MARYLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 73649112732     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9427-8     Document Type: Article

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