Regionalization of multi-categorical landscapes using machine vision methods

Applied Geography

Volumn 45, Issue , 2013, Pages 250-258

  Niesterowicz, Jacek ^a   Stepinski, Tomasz F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Land cover; Landscape; NLCD 2006; Regionalization; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; MAPPING; REGIONALIZATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84886307152     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2013.09.023     Document Type: Article

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