Land cover and topography affect the land transformation caused by wind facilities.

Land transformation (ha of surface disturbance/MW) associated with wind facilities shows wide variation in its reported values. In addition, no studies have attempted to explain the variation across facilities. We digitized land transformation at 39 wind facilities using high resolution aerial image...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jay E Diffendorfer, Roger W Compton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3928332?pdf=render