Spatial methods for characterising land cover and detecting land-cover changes for the tropics

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2457-2474

  Read, J M ^a   Lam, N S N ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DATA MINING;

DIVERSITY INDEX;

REMOTE SENSING;

LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; NDVI; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL REGION;

(NORTHEAST); COSTA RICA;

EID: 0037142195     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160110106140     Document Type: Article

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