Modeling experimental cross-transiograms of neighboring landscape categories with the gamma distribution

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 599-620

  Li, Weidong ^a,b   Zhang, Chuanrong ^b   Dey, Dipak K ^b  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

gamma distribution; landscape heterogeneity; neighboring categories; spatial metric; transiogram

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATISTICS; GIS; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 84859388646     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2011.603336     Document Type: Article

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