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Exploratory landscape metrics for agricultural sustainability [PDF]

open access: yesAgroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 2013
Socioeconomic growth and urban change have been an increasing concern for decision makers in recent decades. The monitoring, mapping, and analysis of agricultural land use change, especially in areas where urban change has been high, is crucial.
Nijkamp, Peter   +2 more
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Landscape metrics and indices : an overview of their use in landscape research [PDF]

open access: yesLiving Reviews in Landscape Research, 2009
The aim of this overview paper is to analyze the use of various landscape metrics and landscape indices for the characterization of landscape structure and various processes at both landscape and ecosystem level.
Antrop, Marc   +4 more
core   +5 more sources

Applying ecological landscape concepts and metrics in urban landscape management

open access: yesPaisagem e Ambiente, 2016
The concepts of Landscape Ecology applied to urban planning may favor the hierarchical classification of vegetation fragments, identifying the most important ones according to the city zones’ land use.
Bráulio Magalhães Fonseca   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Landscape metrics for determining landscape prices

open access: yes, 2009
International audienceThis paper reviews the landscape metrics used in economic valuations of farmland and forest landscapes. The diversity of landscape indicators used in the literature (land use, landscape composition, distance from landscape assets ...
Brossard, Thierry   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

Metric Score Landscape Challenge (MSLC23): Understanding Metrics’ Performance on a Wider Landscape of Translation Quality

open access: yesProceedings of the Eighth Conference on Machine Translation, 2023
The Metric Score Landscape Challenge (MSLC23) dataset aims to gain insight into metric scores on a broader/wider landscape of machine translation (MT) quality. It provides a collection of low- to medium-quality MT output on the WMT23 general task test set.
Lo, Chi-kiu   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Advancing Texture Metrics to Model Landscape Heterogeneity [PDF]

open access: yesIGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2020
We advance methods to study landscape heterogeneity and assess the suitability of these methods to detect boundary regions between land cover types. We employ 2nd-order texture metrics on continuous and on discrete vegetation data in North Eurasia and on a smaller region therein.
Schuh, Leila   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Prediction and Selection of Appropriate Landscape Metrics and Optimal Scale Ranges Based on Multi-Scale Interaction Analysis

open access: yesLand, 2021
Landscape metrics are widely used in landscape planning and land use management. Understanding how landscape metrics respond with scales can provide more accurate prediction information; however, ignoring the interference of multi-scale interaction may ...
Gang Fu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Suitable methods for landscape evaluation and valorization: the third dimension in landscape metrics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Landscape metrics have been widely developed over the last two decades. One of the major recent developments in landscape metrics analysis was the integration of the third dimension.
Batista, Teresa   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Landscape Dynamics in Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Castelló de la Plana in the Last Hundred Years

open access: yesLandscape Online, 2019
The littoral areas of the Mediterranean coastline have undergone a significant transformation due to their historical and intense human occupation. The result has been an evolution of different cultural landscape configurations, ranging from those with a
Rafael Belda-Carrasco   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A New Indicator to Better Represent the Impact of Landscape Pattern Change on Basin Soil Erosion and Sediment Yield in the Upper Reach of Ganjiang, China

open access: yesLand, 2021
Landscape patterns are a result of the combined action of natural and social factors. Quantifying the relationships between landscape pattern changes, soil erosion, and sediment yield in river basins can provide regulators with a foundation for decision ...
Yongfen Zhang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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