An approach for land suitability evaluation using geostatistics, remote sensing, and geographic information system in arid and semiarid ecosystems

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 164, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 501-511

  Emadi, Mostafa ^a   Baghernejad, Majid ^a   Pakparvar, Mojtaba ^b   Kowsar, Sayyed Ahang ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Fars Research Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources Iran   (Iran)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; GIS; Quantitative land suitability; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEO-STATISTICS; GIS; INFORMATION LAYERS; KRIGING; LAND SUITABILITY; LIMITATION FACTORS; LINEAR IMAGING; LOCAL MEAN; ORDINARY KRIGING; PRIMARY DATA; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SECONDARY VARIABLES; SEMI-ARID ECOSYSTEMS; SHORT DISTANCES; SIMPLE KRIGING; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL SAMPLE; SPECTRAL VALUE; STUDY AREAS; TREE-DEPTH;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PHOTOMAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SOILS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; GEOSTATISTICS; GIS; IRS (SATELLITE); KRIGING; LISS; REMOTE SENSING; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL PROPERTY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; IRAN; KRIGING; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IRAN;

IRAN;

EID: 77952290441     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-0909-6     Document Type: Article

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