Alpine Biodiversity in Europe pp 209-219 | Cite as
Mapping Alpine Vegetation
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Vegetation mapping has played an important role in studying the diversity of alpine vegetation (e.g. Coldea and Cristea 1998; Ozenda 1985). Mapping techniques were traditionally based on the manual delineation of units on aerial photographs and the field identification of corresponding vegetation types. However, the rapid development of software to handle geo-referenced data and the increased availability of remotely sensed data revolutionised the methods for vegetation mapping in the 1980s and 1990s. Remote sensing and image analysis not only provide a tool for rapidly mapping large areas, but they also implement objective criteria, whereas manual aerial photographic interpretation ultimately remains a subjective operation (Treitz and Howarth 1993; Goodchild 1994; Franklin 1995).
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Canonical Correspondence Analysis Alpine Grassland Vegetation Unit Alpine Vegetation Biodiversity Research
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