Landscape change assessment of reservation areas using remote sensing and landscape metrics (case study: Jajroud reservation, Iran)

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1701-1717

  Jaafari, Shirkou ^a   Sakieh, Yousef ^b   Shabani, Afshin Alizadeh ^a   Danehkar, Afshin ^a   Nazarisamani, Ali akbar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b GORGAN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Iran; Jajroud reservation area; Land use change; Landscape metrics; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DIGITAL IMAGE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN GROWTH; URBANIZATION;

IRAN; JAJROOD PROTECTED AREA; TEHRAN [IRAN];

EID: 84941670311     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: 15732975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-015-9712-4     Document Type: Article

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