TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wieland, Ralf
A1  - Dalchow, Claus
A1  - Sommer, Michael
A1  - Fukuda, Kyoko
T1  - Multi-Scale Landscape Analysis (MSLA) a method to identify correlation of relief with ecological point data
JF  - Ecological informatics : an international journal on ecoinformatics and computational ecolog
N2  - A common problem in ecology is identifying the relationship between relief and site properties obtainable only by point measurements. The method of Multi-Scale Landscape Analysis (MSLA) identifies such correlations. MSLA combines frequency filtering of the digital elevation model (DEM) with an estimation of the optimum filter coefficients using an optimization procedure. Tested using point data of soil decarbonation from a German young moraine landscape, MSLA provided significant results. Implemented within open source software SAMT. MSLA is comfortable and flexible to use, offering applications for numerous other spatial analysis problems.
KW  - Landscape structure
KW  - DEM
KW  - Fourier transformation
KW  - Wavelet transformation
KW  - Singular value decomposition
KW  - SAMT
Y1  - 2011
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2010.09.002
SN  - 1574-9541
VL  - 6
IS  - 2
SP  - 164
EP  - 169
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -