Landscape expansion index and Its applications to uantitative analysis of urban expansion

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1430-1438

  Liu, Xiaoping ^a   Xia, L I ^a   Chen, Yimin ^a   Qin, Yan ^a   Shaoying, L I ^a   Chen, Minghui ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dongguan; Landscape expansion index; Landscape pattern; Remote sensing; Urban expansion

Indexed keywords

LANDSCAPE CHANGE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPORAL VARIATION; URBAN AREA; URBAN GROWTH;

CHINA; DONGGUAN; GUANGDONG;

EID: 77950677623     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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