This land was made for you and me | Nature.com
October 21, 2008 06:57PM
What is the typical landscape of the United States? ...To find out, Cardille used an algorithm called "affinity propagation" ...
What emerges on any one of the runs are something like 17 exemplar squares, real chunks of the landscape that best represent the totality of the landscape.
Source : Nature.com "In the Field"
Hat tip: Resilience Science
