Land cover analysis for urban foresters and municipal planners: Examples from Iowa

Journal of Forestry

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-33

  Bowman, Troy A ^a   Thompson, Jan R ^a   Tyndall, John C ^a   Anderson, Paul F ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic information syste; Land use change; Urban forests; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; PLANNING;

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; CANOPY CLOSURES; DATA SETS; EARLY-SUCCESSIONAL; FOREST COVER; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; LAND COVER ANALYSIS; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LAND-USE CHANGE; MATURE FOREST; NATURAL AREAS; NATURAL SYSTEMS; STUDY AREAS; URBAN FORESTS; URBAN LAND COVER; URBANIZATION;

FORESTRY;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DECISION MAKING; GIS; GRASSLAND; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; URBAN FORESTRY; URBANIZATION;

AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; GIS; IOWA; LAND USE; PLANNING;

IOWA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84930484354     PISSN: 00221201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5849/jof.10-045     Document Type: Article

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