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4.0 out of 5 stars
Much needed critalcal view on spatial indices,
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This review is from: Remote Sensing for Landscape Ecology: New Metric Indicators for Monitoring, Modeling, and Assessment of Ecosystems (Mapping Science) (Hardcover)
Working with the development of indices/indicators for sustainability and structural diversity of forests, I find this little book highly inspiring. Wanting to use some of the metrics that are implemented in e.g. Fragstats and r.le for GRASS - it was nice to find out that someone had already taken a critical view into the opportunities and pitfalls of this approach. The disadvantages of the "contagion" and "fractal dimension" indices are demonstrated be use of diffent land cover data sets derived from Remote Sensing sources, mostly Landsat TM. Two new metrics are proposed, and (small wonder) they are demonstrated to work much better than contagion and f.d. It is nice to see a book that really focuses on a specific subject, although it would have been nice with a review of some more indices and a discussion of other ways to evaluate landscape structure from RS (and GIS) data.
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Remote Sensing for Landscape Ecology: New Metric Indicators for Monitoring, Modeling, and Assessment of Ecosystems (Mapping Science) by Robert C. Frohn (Hardcover - January 15, 1998)
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