The influence of landscape variation on landform categorization

Journal of Spatial Information Science

Volumn 5, Issue 2012, 2012, Pages 51-73

  Williams, Maia ^a   Kuhn, Werner ^b   Painho, Marco ^a  

^a NOVA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SCHOOL NOVA IMS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive geography; Ethnophysiography; Geographic information systems; GIS; Landform categorization; Landform terms; Landscapes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903908738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1948660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5311/JOSIS.2012.5.107     Document Type: Article

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