A new data aggregation technique to improve landscape metric downscaling

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1261-1276

  Frazier, Amy E ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Classification; Landscape metrics; Modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP); Pattern; Population weighting; Power law; Spectral unmixing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904871994     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-0066-3     Document Type: Article

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