Forest cover change and illegal logging in the Ukrainian Carpathians in the transition period from 1988 to 2007

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1194-1207

  Kuemmerle, Tobias ^a,c   Chaskovskyy, Oleh ^b   Knorn, Jan ^c   Radeloff, Volker C ^a   Kruhlov, Ivan ^d   Keeton, William S ^e   Hostert, Patrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UKRAINIAN NATIONAL FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d IVAN FRANKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LVIV   (Ukraine)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Carpathians; Forest disturbance; Forest harvesting; Forest inventory data; Forest resource assessment; Illegal logging; Landsat; Post socialist transition; Support vector machines; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

CARPATHIANS; FOREST DISTURBANCE; FOREST HARVESTING; FOREST INVENTORY DATA; FOREST RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; ILLEGAL LOGGING; LANDSAT; POST-SOCIALIST TRANSITION; UKRAINE;

HARVESTING; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; NATURAL RESOURCES; REFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING; REVEGETATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TIMBER;

LOGGING (FORESTRY);

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CLEARCUTTING; DISTURBANCE; FOREST COVER; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST RESOURCE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSAT; LOGGING (TIMBER); REFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOCIALISM; TIMBER HARVESTING; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

FORESTS; HARVESTING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOGGING; NATURAL RESOURCES; REFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING; UKRAINE;

CARPATHIANS; EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UKRAINE; USSR;

EID: 64649101755     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.02.006     Document Type: Article

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