Integrating small-scale landscape elements into land use/cover: The impact on landscape metrics' values

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 67, Issue , 2016, Pages 714-722

  Mõisja, Kiira ^a   Uuemaa, Evelyn ^a   Oja, Tõnu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Data integration; Data model; Landscape metrics; Small scale landscape elements; Topographic vector data; Uncertainties

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; LAND USE; VECTORS;

DATA SPECIFICATIONS; ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS; LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE ELEMENTS; LANDSCAPE METRIC; LANDSCAPE METRICS; UNCERTAINTIES; VECTOR DATA;

DATA INTEGRATION;

DATA INTERPRETATION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LAND COVER; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; POLYGON; TOPOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84962428787     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.03.033     Document Type: Article

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