Unsupervised regionalization of the United States into landscape pattern types

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1450-1468

  Niesterowicz, J ^a   Stepinski, T F ^a   Jasiewicz, J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Automatic regionalization; landscape; large geodata; NLCD; pattern analysis

Indexed keywords

GIS; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; REGIONALIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84954488972     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2015.1134796     Document Type: Article

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