Urban-rural gradient detection using multivariate spatial analysis and landscape metrics

The gradient approach allows for an innovative representation of landscape composition and configuration not presupposing spatial discontinuities typical of the conventional methods of analysis. Also the urban-rural dichotomy can be better understood through a continuous landscape gradient whose cha...

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Main Authors: Marco Vizzari, Maurizia Sigura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PAGEPress Publications 2013-09-01
Series:Journal of Agricultural Engineering
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Online Access:http://www.agroengineering.org/index.php/jae/article/view/333