The use of multivariate analysis for the ecological characterization of landscape: the Mula River watershed, south-east Spain

Landscape and Agricultural Patterns in Rural Areas: a Case Study in the Brionne Basin, Normandy, France

“…Landscape attributes (13) were recorded for each cell of the grid (Table 2). References to similar works were used to help define these attributes (Forman and Godron, 1986;Dunn et al, 1991;Calvo et al, 1992). The landscape attributes are divided into three subsets and were recorded for the years 1964 and 1989.…”

“…Principal component analysis (PCA), which has been used to analyse landscape data (Baudry, 1993;Calvo et al, 1992), was chosen in this paper to analyse the three sets of data (landscape characteristics in 1989, landscape changes between 1964 and 1989 and farm types). The PCA included centering and reduction to take into account the heterogeneity of the aggregated data.…”

A Fuzzy Multicriteria Grade Cluster Analysis for the Budget Allocation of Tourism and Leisure Resources

“…Thus, it would be easy to distinguish the tourism projects with different need priorities. As to the multivariate cluster analysis method, many studies have covered marketing research [26], organisational behaviour [27], landscape and ecological-condition classification [28], and land classification and management [29]. However, in these papers, we have been unable to find any subjects in which this analysis method was used to solve the problem for the resource allocation of tourism projects, so the related research in this paper is worthwhile.…”