A national assessment of green infrastructure and change for the conterminous United States using morphological image processing

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 94, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 186-195

  Wickham, James D ^a   Riitters, Kurt H ^b   Wade, Timothy G ^a   Vogt, Peter ^c  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conservation; Corridors; Ecological networks; Land cover change; Landscape ecology; Restoration

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

CONSERVATION PLANNING; CORRIDORS; ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS; GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MORPHOLOGICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; MORPHOLOGICAL SPATIAL PATTERN ANALYSES (MSPA);

IMAGE PROCESSING;

CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GIS; GREENSPACE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MAPPING METHOD; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 74249119470     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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