Artificial Intelligence in modelling the complexity of Mediterranean landscape transformations

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 81, Issue , 2012, Pages 87-96

  Papadimitriou, Fivos ^a  

^a HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Artificial Intelligence; Greece; Landscape complexity; Landscape modelling; Mediterranean landscapes; Prolog

Indexed keywords

GREECE; LANDSCAPE COMPLEXITY; LANDSCAPE MODELLING; MEDITERRANEAN LANDSCAPES; PROLOG;

ECOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; PROLOG (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); SEMANTICS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPLEXITY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; LAND DEGRADATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

GREECE;

EID: 84055178523     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2011.11.009     Document Type: Article

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