A novel method for measuring landscape heterogeneity changes

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 567-571

  Chen, Bin ^a   Xu, Bing ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Comparisons; Heterogeneity changes mapping; Index; Landscape heterogeneity; Time series

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MAPPING;

AUTOMATED TRACINGS; COMPARISONS; INDEX; LANDSCAPE CHANGES; LANDSCAPE HETEROGENEITIES; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK;

TIME SERIES;

EID: 84907983071     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2351575     Document Type: Article

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