Assessing the application of a geographic presence-only model for land suitability mapping

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 257-269

  Heumann, Benjamin W ^a,b   Walsh, Stephen J ^a,b   McDaniel, Phillip M ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Land suitability; MaxEnt; Presence only; Thailand

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CROP; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LAND COVER; LAND TYPE; LAND USE; MAPPING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PADDY FIELD; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; REMOTE SENSING; RICE; RURAL AREA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

BURIRAM; NANG RONG; NORTHEASTERN REGION; THAILAND;

EID: 80051786604     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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