Modelling the risk of land cover change from environmental and socio-economic drivers in heterogeneous and changing landscapes: The role of uncertainty

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 108-119

  Alvarez Martinez, Jose Manuel ^a,b   Suarez Seoane, Susana ^a   De Luis Calabuig, Estanislao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Image classification; Land cover change; Regression models; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

DEPENDENT VARIABLES; LAND-COVER CHANGE; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; PARSIMONIOUS MODELS; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; REGRESSION MODEL; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; UNCERTAINTY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; HETEROGENEITY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

EID: 79954592866     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.01.009     Document Type: Article

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