The green areas of San Juan, Puerto Rico

Ecology and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Ramos González, Olga M ^a  

^a USDA Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Green areas; Green infrastructure; Morphological spatial pattern analysis (MSPA); Spatial pattern analysis; Urban forests; Urban green area characterization; Urban vegetation

Indexed keywords

GREENSPACE; IKONOS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBAN FORESTRY; VEGETATION COVER;

PUERTO RICO; SAN JUAN [PUERTO RICO];

EID: 84911364562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-06598-190321     Document Type: Article

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