Land cover change 2002-2005 in Borneo and the role of fire derived from MODIS imagery

Global Change Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2329-2340

  Langner, Andreas ^a,b   Miettinen, Jukka ^c   Siegert, Florian ^a  

^a REMOTE SENSING SOLUTIONS GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Fire; Forest degradation; Hotspots; Indonesia; Land cover change; MODIS; Peat swamp forest; Rainforest; Southeast Asia

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; FOREST FIRE; IMAGERY; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; LANDSAT; MODEL VALIDATION; MODIS; SWAMP FOREST;

ASIA; BORNEO; EURASIA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 35348815181     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01442.x     Document Type: Article

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