Integration of land use and land cover inventories for landscape management and planning in Italy

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-20

  Sallustio, Lorenzo ^a   Munafò, Michele ^b,c   Riitano, Nicola ^c   Lasserre, Bruno ^a   Fattorini, Lorenzo ^d   Marchetti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Double classification; Estimation; Monitoring; Point sampling; Stratified allocation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ESTIMATION; INFORMATION USE; MONITORING; SEMANTICS; URBAN PLANNING;

AGRICULTURAL ABANDONMENTS; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; HYBRID CLASSIFICATION; LAND USE AND LAND COVER; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; POINT SAMPLING; STRATIFIED ALLOCATION; VISUAL INTERPRETATION;

LAND USE;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CARTOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRASSLAND; INVENTORY; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; PASTURE;

CLASSIFICATION; CROPLAND; GRASSLAND; ITALY; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; PASTURE; PHOTOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION; SAMPLING; URBAN AREA; AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; URBANIZATION;

ITALY; MOLISE;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ITALY; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84974667027     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-015-5056-7     Document Type: Article

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