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3 datasets found

  • Land use/cover dynamics in Austin metropolitan area since 1992

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    Education, culture and sport

    The present dataset is part of the published scientific paper Zhao C, Weng Q, Hersperger A M. Characterizing the 3-D urban morphology transformation to understand urban-form...

    Last updated: February 7, 2022

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    • austin
    • land-dynamics
    • land-use
    • landscape
    • urban-morphology
  • Amphibian observation and pond data (Aargau, Switzerland)

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    Education, culture and sport

    In the canton of Aargau, hundreds of new ponds have been constructed since the 1990s to benefit declining amphibian populations. This dataset consists of monitoring data for all 12...

    Last updated: September 24, 2024

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    • OCTET
    • amphibians
    • connectivity
    • conservation
    • landscape
    • occupancy-models
    • wetlands
  • LABES 2 Indicators of the Swiss Landscape Monitoring Program

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    Education, culture and sport

    The Swiss Landscape Monitoring Program (LABES) records both the physical and the perceived quality of the landscape with about 30 indicators. The surveys of the physical aspects...

    Last updated: July 8, 2025

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    • ZIP
    • ecosystem-services
    • european-landscape-convention
    • landscape
    • landscape-ecology
    • landscape-perception