The extrapolation of social landscape values to a national level in New Zealand using landscape character classification

Applied Geography

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 84-94

  Brown, Greg ^a   Brabyn, Lars ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Character; Extrapolation; Landscape; Participatory GIS; PPGIS; Values

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; DATA SET; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; GIS; LAND USE CHANGE; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PERCEPTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA;

NEW ZEALAND; OTAGO; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHLAND;

EID: 84863097981     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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