Assessing avian habitat fragmentation in urban areas of Hong Kong (Kowloon) at high spatial resolution using spectral unmixing

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 95, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 54-60

  Nichol, Janet Elizabeth ^a   Wong, Man Sing ^a   Corlett, Richard ^b   Nichol, Douglas W ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ecological corridors; Least cost path analysis; Linear spectral unmixing; Satellite images; Urban vegetation

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FRICTION; QUERY PROCESSING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

ECOLOGICAL CORRIDORS; LEAST-COST PATH ANALYSIS; LINEAR SPECTRAL UNMIXING; SATELLITE IMAGES; URBAN VEGETATION;

PIXELS;

BIOMASS; BIRD; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; IKONOS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBANIZATION;

COSTS; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; FRICTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITES;

CHINA; HONG KONG; KOWLOON;

AVES;

EID: 75349096065     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2009.12.002     Document Type: Article

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