Mapping Settlements in the Wildland-Urban Interface: A Decision Tree Approach

Professional Geographer

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 262-275

  Platt, Rutherford V ^a  

^a GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

dasymetric mapping; decision trees; object oriented; wildland urban interface

Indexed keywords

DECISION ANALYSIS; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; THEMATIC MAPPING; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION;

EID: 84859623171     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2011.601191     Document Type: Article

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