Connotative land degradation mapping: A knowledge-based approach to land degradation assessment

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 40, Issue , 2013, Pages 51-64

  Bojórquez Tapia, Luis A ^a   Cruz Bello, Gustavo M ^a   Luna González, Laura ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

ANP; Fuzzy pattern recognition; Geo visualization; GIS MCDA; Land degradation; Mexico

Indexed keywords

ANP; FUZZY PATTERN RECOGNITION; GEO-VISUALIZATION; GIS-MCDA; LAND DEGRADATION; ME-XICO;

DECISION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MAPPING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; VISUALIZATION;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DECISION MAKING; GIS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND DEGRADATION; MAPPING METHOD; POLICY MAKING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; VISUALIZATION; WATERSHED;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84871798990     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.07.009     Document Type: Article

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