Monitoring urban land cover change: An expert system approach to land cover classification of semiarid to arid urban centers

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 173-185

  Stefanov, William L ^a   Ramsey, Michael S ^b   Christensen, Philip R ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arid environment; Knowledge based systems; Surface properties; Thematic mapper; Urban environment

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; EXPERT SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RADIOMETERS;

LAND COVER;

REMOTE SENSING;

EXPERT SYSTEM; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MONITORING; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN MORPHOLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

ASTER; PHOENIX;

EID: 0034881595     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(01)00204-8     Document Type: Article

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