Original scientific paper

Distance Based Synthetic Measure of Agricultural Parcel Locations

Monika Maleta orcid.org/0000-0003-2567-5971 ; The Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture, Radom, Poland
Elżbieta Bielecka orcid.org/0000-0003-3255-1264 ; Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

The paper aims to define the location factor (LF) as a synthetic, quantitative measure of agricultural parcel locations. Multivariate comparative analysis and the original formula based on the weighted distance to selected places, were used to determine the location factor. The factor allows the objective description of parcel locations and replaces several locational characteristics by one variable which simplifies the computational process and could be used in many applications. The LF also works as a similarity measure in parcel clustering and could be applied in a variety of spatial analyses at the municipality level, in public investment planning, land consolidation or land value map making.

Keywords

location factor; location characteristics; agricultural lands

Hrčak ID:

216737

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/216737

Publication date:

29.12.2018.

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