Temporal variation of characteristic scales in urban landscapes: An insight into the evolving internal structures of China's two largest cities

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1063-1074

  Xu, Chi ^a   Liu, Maosong ^a   Hong, Chao ^a   Chi, Ting ^a   An, Shuqing ^a   Yang, Xuejiao ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Characteristic scale domain; Remote sensing; Urban structure; Urbanization; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPORAL VARIATION; URBAN AREA; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN MORPHOLOGY; URBANIZATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

BEIJING [BEIJING (ADS)]; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84864278752     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9764-x     Document Type: Article

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