A method for the selection of relevant pattern indices for monitoring of spatial forest cover pattern at a regional scale |
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Authors: | Eva M De Clercq Femke Vandemoortele Robert R De Wulf |
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Institution: | Laboratory of Forest Management and Spatial Information Techniques, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Gent, Belgium |
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Abstract: | When signing Agenda 21, several countries agreed to monitor the status of forests to ensure their sustainable use. For reporting on the change in spatial forest cover pattern on a regional scale, pattern metrics are widely used. These indices are not often thoroughly evaluated as to their sensitivity to remote sensing data characteristics. Hence, one would not know whether the change in the metric values was due to actual landscape pattern changes or to characteristic variation of multitemporal remote sensing data. |
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Keywords: | Forest fragmentation Landscape indices Spatial pattern Spatial and thematic resolution |
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