Mapping land use/cover distribution on a mountainous tropical island using remote sensing and GIS

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1909-1918

  Baban, Serwan M J ^a   Wan Yusof, Kamaruzaman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND USE; MAPPING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; WEATHER SATELLITES;

LAND COVER; SATELLITE IMAGING; THEMATIC MAPPER;

REMOTE SENSING;

GIS; LAND COVER; LAND USE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REMOTE SENSING; TOPOGRAPHY;

LANGKAWI ISLAND; MALAYSIA;

EID: 0035838573     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160119220     Document Type: Article

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