Development of free and opensource GIS software for cartographic generalisation and occupancy area calculations

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages 48-54

  Zaragozi B ^a   Gimenez P ^a   Navarro, J T ^a   Dong, P ^b   Ramon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cartographic generalisation; Cartography; GPS; Rare endemic or threatened flora; Scales of detail; Voronoi polygons

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CARTOGRAPHY; DATABASE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FIELDWORK; GIS; GPS; HABITAT SELECTION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; POLYGON; RARE SPECIES; SAMPLING; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN PLANNING;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

FELIS; HELIANTHEMUM;

EID: 84857914158     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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