Change detection study of Kuwait City and environs using multi-temporal Landsat Thematic Mapper data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1651-1662

  Kwarteng, A Y ^a,b   Chavez, P S ^a,b  

^a Kuwait Institute for Scienti fic Research   (Kuwait)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; HIGH PASS FILTERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; OIL SPILLS; RADIOMETERS;

LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER;

REMOTE SENSING;

CHANGE DETECTION; COLOUR COMPOSITE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT TM; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; URBAN MONITORING;

KUWAIT;

EID: 0032100273     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311698215162     Document Type: Article

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