Land cover and forest formation distributions for St. Kitts, Nevis, St. Eustatius, Grenada and Barbados from decision tree classification of cloud-cleared satellite imagery

Caribbean Journal of Science

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 175-198

  Helmer, Eileen H ^a   Kennaway, Todd A ^b   Pedreros, Diego H ^c   Clark, Matthew L ^d   Marcano Vega, Humfredo ^e   Tieszen, Larry L ^c   Ruzycki, Thomas R ^b   Schill, S R ^f   Carrington, C M Sean ^g  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

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

^c EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

^d SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Puerto Rican Conservation Foundation   (United States)

^f THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Forest conservation; Land use change; Landsat; Machine learning; Multidate; Vegetation map

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; DATA INTERPRETATION; DECISION ANALYSIS; FOREST COVER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSAT; RASTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GRENADA [WINDWARD ISLANDS]; LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; LESSER ANTILLES; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; SAINT EUSTATIUS; SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS; WINDWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES];

SACCHARUM;

EID: 54349103275     PISSN: 00086452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v44i2.a6     Document Type: Article

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