Measuring scale-dependent landscape structure with rao's quadratic diversity

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 405-412

  Ricotta, Carlo ^a   Carranza, Maria Laura ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Compositional diversity; Isernia; Land cover change; Landscape complexity; Scaling functions; Spatial process

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948731981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi2020405     Document Type: Article

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