Evolution trends of land use/land cover in a Mediterranean forest landscape in Italy

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6782 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2011, Pages 284-299

  Di Fazio, Salvatore ^a   Modica, Giuseppe ^a   Zoccali, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aerial photographs; Calabria (Italy); GIS; Land Use Land Cover (LULC) changes; Mediterranean forest landscape; Transition matrices

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; CALABRIA (ITALY); LAND USE/LAND COVER (LULC) CHANGES; MEDITERRANEAN FOREST; TRANSITION MATRICES; CALABRIA; LAND USE/LAND COVER;

PHOTOGRAPHY; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ANTENNAS; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT;

PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; LAND USE;

EID: 79960335315     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21928-3_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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