While Boolean sets non-gently rip: A theoretical framework on fuzzy sets for mapping landscape patterns

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 125-129

  Rocchini, Duccio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Boolean membership; Crisp classification; Fuzzy membership; Fuzzy set theory; Landscape ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77049095136     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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