Diagnostic tools to evaluate a spatial land change projection along a gradient of an explanatory variable

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1319-1331

  Chen, Hao ^a   Pontius Jr , Robert Gilmore ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Calibration; Geomod; Model; Stationary; Validation

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIXEL; SLOPE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956874308     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-010-9519-5     Document Type: Article

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