Land cover and topography affect the land transformation caused by wind facilities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Diffendorfer, Jay E ^a   Compton, Roger W ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL IMAGERY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY YIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; LAND TRANSFORMATION; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOPOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TURBINE SIZE; WIND POWER; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; WIND;

GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; WIND;

EID: 84895859126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088914     Document Type: Article

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