Landscape sequences along the urban-rural-natural gradient: A novel geospatial approach for identification and analysis

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 140, Issue , 2015, Pages 42-55

  Vizzari, Marco ^a   Sigura, Maurizia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Fringe areas; Kernel density estimation; Landscape gradients; Landscape metrics; Urban rural natural gradient

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LAND USE; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

FRINGE AREAS; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; LANDSCAPE GRADIENTS; LANDSCAPE METRICS; NATURAL GRADIENT;

RURAL AREAS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGROFORESTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; RURAL AREA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

ITALY;

EID: 84928348599     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.04.001     Document Type: Article

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