Spatial Scale Effects on Landscape Pattern Metrics: A Case Study of Landscape Changes in Rondonia, Brazil, 1975-2000 - Couverture souple

Hao, Yongping

 
9783639181340: Spatial Scale Effects on Landscape Pattern Metrics: A Case Study of Landscape Changes in Rondonia, Brazil, 1975-2000
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639181344 ISBN 13 : 9783639181340
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

Spatial Scale Effects on Landscape Pattern Metrics presents a systematic assessment of the spatial scale effects on landscape patterns metrics that are of great interest to graduate students and professionals in the fields of landscape ecology, geography, remote sensing and environmental sciences. Scale effects on the performances of landscape metrics have attracted a lot of concern recently. Most studies have focused on two scale effects: changes in spatial resolution and changes in spatial extent. Little empirical analysis has been done on the effects of spatial aggregation (filtering) on landscape metrics. This book has analyzed the effects of three types of changes in scale on the performances of eighteen commonly used landscape metrics: (1) varying spatial aggregation, (2) varying spatial resolution, and (3) varying spatial extent. This study has demonstrated the importance of using landscape metrics that have little sensitivity to scale effects and most sensitivity to the actual landscape pattern changes for examining time-series changes in deforestation on the landscape.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Spatial Scale Effects on Landscape Pattern Metrics presents a systematic assessment of the spatial scale effects on landscape patterns metrics that are of great interest to graduate students and professionals in the fields of landscape ecology, geography, remote sensing and environmental sciences. Scale effects on the performances of landscape metrics have attracted a lot of concern recently. Most studies have focused on two scale effects: changes in spatial resolution and changes in spatial extent. Little empirical analysis has been done on the effects of spatial aggregation (filtering) on landscape metrics. This book has analyzed the effects of three types of changes in scale on the performances of eighteen commonly used landscape metrics: (1) varying spatial aggregation, (2) varying spatial resolution, and (3) varying spatial extent. This study has demonstrated the importance of using landscape metrics that have little sensitivity to scale effects and most sensitivity to the actual landscape pattern changes for examining time-series changes in deforestation on the landscape.

Biographie de l'auteur

Yongping Hao, Ph.D. (Geography) and M.S. (Statistics) from the university of Cincinnati. Principal Research Scientist at Battelle's Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation, Atlanta, GA. Robert C. Frohn, Ph.D. (Geography) from University of California, Santa Barbara. Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Cincinnati, OH.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639181344
ISBN 13 
9783639181340
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
120
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Personne responsable
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