Mapping Human Induced Landscape Changes in Israel Between the end of the 19Th Century and the Beginning of the 21Th Century

This paper examines changes in Israel's landscape by comparing two time periods, 1881 and 2011. For this purpose we compared land cover derived from the Palestine Exploration Fund historical map to a present land cover map that was compiled from 38 different present-day GIS layers. The research...

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Main Authors: Schaffer Gad, Levin Noam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2014-01-01
Series:Journal of Landscape Ecology
Subjects:
gis
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/jlecol-2014-0012