Large area mapping of land-cover change in Rondônia using multitemporal spectral mixture analysis and decision tree classifiers

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 20, 2002, Pages LBA-40-1-LBA-40-18

  Roberts, D A ^a   Numata, I ^a   Holmes, K ^a   Batista, G ^b   Krug, T ^b   Monteiro, A ^c   Powell, B ^a   Chadwick, O A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c Instituto Do Homem e Ambiente da Amazônia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

1610 Global Change: Atmosphere (0315, 0325); 1615 Global Change: Biogeochemical processes (4805); 1640 Global Change: Remote sensing; 9360 Information Related to Geographic Region: South America; Land cover change; Rondonia; Spectral mixture analysis

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; FORESTRY; MAPPING; METEOROLOGY; SOILS;

DEFORESTATION; GEOPHYSICS; LAND COVER; MAPPING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VIDEOGRAPHY;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL; RONDONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 36448933165     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JD000374     Document Type: Article

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