Detecting war-induced abandoned agricultural land in northeast Bosnia using multispectral, multitemporal Landsat TM imagery

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 29, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3805-3831

  Witmer, Frank D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; QUICKBIRD IMAGERIES; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY; STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; SUPERVISED CLASSIFIERS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CIVIL WAR; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 46349102718     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160801891879     Document Type: Article

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