A multivariate fractional regression approach to modeling land use and cover dynamics in a Mediterranean landscape

摘要: Abstract The way landscapes change in time reveal a great deal of information about the interplay between forces nature and impact human-driven changes Mediterranean landscape. To understand dynamics behind process polygon fragmentation land use cover vector maps we illustrate potential novel regression methodology to cope with multivariate fractional data. An overlay two vector-based separated by interval several years (1956 1993) show polygons that have become fragmented. Those fragments thus form bounded data set. extension Papke Wooldridge (1996) estimation case response variables has been subsequently developed study processes maps. applied representative set from Barcelona province, Spain. Several explanatory used, among them type most important adjacent 1956 polygon. results our indicate are determined not only geographical environmental but also neighboring We discuss its when employed techniques landscape modeling.