Fractally deforested landscape: Pattern and process in a tri-national Amazon frontier

Applied Geography

Volumn 52, Issue , 2014, Pages 204-211

  Sun, Jing ^a   Huang, Zhuojie ^b   Zhen, Qiang ^c   Southworth, Jane ^d   Perz, Stephen ^d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Bottom up plan; Configuration scheme; Deforestation; Fixed grid scans; Fractal analysis

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; DEFORESTATION; FOREST CLEARANCE; FOREST COVER; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL FOREST;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 84902585964     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.05.011     Document Type: Article

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