Abandonment of traditional terraced landscape: A change detection approach (a case study in Costa Viola, Calabria, Italy)

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 2608-2622

  Modica, Giuseppe ^a   Praticò, Salvatore ^a   Di Fazio, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

change detection analyses; historical aerial photographs; landscape trajectories; spatio temporal patterns (STePs); terraced landscape

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; AGRICULTURE; ECONOMICS; LAND USE; MAPS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; PHOTOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; CHANGE DETECTION ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS; FREE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE; POST-CLASSIFICATION COMPARISONS; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; TERRACED LANDSCAPE;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; AGRICULTURAL LAND; LAND COVER; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE CHANGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERRACE; TRAJECTORY;

CALABRIA; ITALY;

EID: 85032904159     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2824     Document Type: Article

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