Links and broken chains: evidence of human-caused changes in land cover in remotely sensed images

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 135-149

  Boone, Randall B ^a   Lackett, Jill M ^a   Galvin, Kathleen A ^a   Ojima, Dennis S ^a   Tucker III, Compton J ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; Image differencing; Land cover; Landsat GeoCover; NDVI

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECOSYSTEM; FORAGE; GOVERNMENT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LAND USE; LIVESTOCK; MONGOLIA; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TILLAGE; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION;

EID: 33846833503     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2006.09.006     Document Type: Article

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