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The process of land planning, addressed to operate the synthesis between development aims and appropriate policies of preservation and management of territorial resources, requires a detailed analysis of the territory carried out by making use of data stored in Geographic Information Systems (GISs). A detailed analysis of changes in the landscape is time consuming, thus it can be carried out only on a sample of the whole territory and an efficient procedure is needed for selecting a sample of area units. In this paper we apply two recently proposed sample selection procedures to a study area for comparing them in terms of efficiency as well as of operational advantages, in order to set up a methodology which enables an efficient estimate of the change in the main landscape features on wide areas.
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Carfagna, E., Tassinari, P., Zagoraiou, M., Benni, S., Torreggiani, D. (2012). Efficient Statistical Sample Designs in a GIS for Monitoring the Landscape Changes. In: Di Ciaccio, A., Coli, M., Angulo Ibanez, J. (eds) Advanced Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Large Data-Sets. Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21037-2_36
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