Remote-sensing image mining: Detecting agents of land-use change in tropical forest areas

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 29, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 4803-4822

  dos Santos Silva, Marcelino Pereira ^a,b   Camara, Gilberto ^b   Escada, Maria Isabel Sobral ^a   Modesto de Souza, Ricardo Cartaxo ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; DEFORESTATION; LAND USE; SPACE OPTICS; SPACE RESEARCH;

DECISION TREE CLASSIFIERS; DETECTING AGENT; LAND USE MAPS; LAND-USE CHANGE; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; SHAPE DESCRIPTION; SOCIAL AGENTS; TROPICAL FOREST;

REMOTE SENSING;

DATABASE; DEFORESTATION; DETECTION METHOD; IMAGING METHOD; LAND USE CHANGE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPICAL FOREST;

DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; MAPS; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 48249113703     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160801950634     Document Type: Article

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