A new arc–chord ratio (ACR) rugosity index for quantifying three-dimensional landscape structural complexity

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 181-192

  Du Preez, Cherisse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

ArcGIS; Arc chord ratio; Landscape ecology; Roughness; Rugosity; Slope; Structural complexity; Topographic heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922076570     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-0118-8     Document Type: Article

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