Comparing terrain and vegetation-based visibility for explaining sable flight behaviour in a Southern African savanna

Geocarto International

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 130-143

  Ndaimani, Henry ^a   Murwira, Amon ^a   Kativu, Shakkie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

ASTER DEM; flight initiation distance; GIS; remote sensing; viewshed

Indexed keywords

ASTER; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GIS; HUNTING; LINEARITY; MAMMAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SAVANNA; TERRAIN; VEGETATION COVER;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84877292643     PISSN: 10106049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2012.677481     Document Type: Article

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