Performance evaluation of land change simulation models using landscape metrics

Geocarto International

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 655-677

  Dezhkam, Sadeq ^a   Jabbarian Amiri, Bahman ^a   Darvishsefat, Ali Asghar ^a   Sakieh, Yousef ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

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

Author keywords

CA Markov; land use land cover; Landscape metrics; model performance; simulation

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATCH DYNAMICS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84963997966     PISSN: 10106049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2016.1167967     Document Type: Article

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