Measuring long-term ecological changes in densely populated landscapes using current and historical high resolution imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 457-473

  Ellis, Erle C ^a   Wang, Hongqing ^a,h   Xiao, Hong Sheng ^b   Peng, Kui ^c   Liu, Xin Ping ^d   Li, Shou Cheng ^e   Ouyang, Hua ^c   Cheng, Xu ^f   Yang, Lin Zhang ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e SICHUAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE   (China)

^h FLORIDA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological history; Feature based mapping; Human dominated ecosystems; Land use change; Landscape classification; Landscape ecology; Long term ecological change; Suburbs; Urban landscapes; Villages

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAPPING; REGIONAL PLANNING; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION;

ECOLOGICAL HISTORY; FEATURE-BASED MAPPING; HUMAN DOMINATED ECOSYSTEMS; LAND-USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL CHANGE; SUBURBS; URBAN LANDSCAPES; VILLAGES;

ECOLOGY;

LAND USE CHANGE; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 32244431571     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2005.11.002     Document Type: Article

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