Post-War Land Cover Changes and Fragmentation in Halgurd Sakran National Park (HSNP), Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Land

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

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

^a SORAN UNIVERSITY   (Iraq)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; GIS; Halgurd Sakran National Park; Landscape metrics; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85049883802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2073445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/land7010038     Document Type: Article

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