Estimating soil sealing rate at national level - Italy as a case study

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 26, Issue , 2013, Pages 137-140

  Munafò, Michele ^a   Salvati, Luca ^b   Zitti, Marco ^b  

^a Ispra ^*  (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Exurban development; Italy; National survey; Soil degradation

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; DATA-SOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; EXURBAN DEVELOPMENT; FIELD PLOT; FOUR-POINT; HIGH RESOLUTION; ITALY; NATIONAL LEVEL; RANDOM SAMPLE; ROUGH ESTIMATION; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL SEALING; SOUTHERN ITALY; STUDY AREAS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAP; VISUAL INTERPRETATION;

MAPS;

SOILS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; GROWTH RATE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE CHANGE; SEALING; SOIL DEGRADATION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

ITALY;

EID: 84870225454     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.11.001     Document Type: Article

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