Representative landscapes in the forested area of Canada

Environmental Management

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 163-173

  Cardille, Jeffrey A ^a   White, Joanne C ^b   Wulder, Mike A ^b   Holland, Tara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affinity propagation; Canada; EOSD; Exemplars; Forest; Fragmentation; Pattern; Representatives

Indexed keywords

AFFINITY PROPAGATION; CANADA; EOSD; EXEMPLARS; FOREST; FRAGMENTATION; PATTERN; REPRESENTATIVES;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LANDFORMS;

FORESTRY;

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; ECOZONE; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INTERNET; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSAT; MEDIA ROLE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; VEGETATION COVER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOREST; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE;

CANADA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; TREES;

ALGORITHMS; CANADA; DATA PROCESSING; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; NATURAL RESOURCES;

CANADA;

EID: 84856744114     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-011-9785-2     Document Type: Article

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