Multi-criteria assessment of land cover dynamic changes in Halgurd Sakran National Park (HSNP), Kurdistan Region of Iraq, using remote sensing and GIS

Land

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Hamad, Rahel ^a,b   Balzter, Heiko ^a   Kolo, Kamal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b SORAN UNIVERSITY   (Iraq)

Author keywords

FRAGSTATS; GIS; Halgurd Sakran National Park; Land cover; Land use; Landscape metrics; Random forest; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019179050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2073445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/land6010018     Document Type: Article

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