Experiment for mapping land cover and it's change in southeastern Sri Lanka utilizing 250 m resolution MODIS imageries

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1349-1355

  Perera, Kithsiri ^a   Tsuchiya, Kiyoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Land cover map; MODIS; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE GASES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NASA; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

CHANGE DETECTION; CLOUD COVERAGE; FOREST REGIONS; LAND COVER; MODIS; NATURAL COLORS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VEGETATION COVER;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 63649153411     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2008.12.016     Document Type: Article

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