A simple regional downscaling approach for spatially distributing land use types for agricultural land

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 120, Issue , 2013, Pages 10-19

  Gärtner, Dominique ^a   Keller, Armin ^a   Schulin, Rainer ^b  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agricultural land use; Downscaling approach; Regionalization; Spatially explicit

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; ALGORITHM; DOWNSCALING; LAND USE CHANGE; REGIONALIZATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

FRIBOURG [SWITZERLAND]; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84880330994     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2013.04.006     Document Type: Article

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