The land-cover change mapper (LCM) and its application to timber harvest monitoring in western Canada

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 941-950

  Castilla, Guillermo ^a   Guthrie, Richard H ^a   Hay, Geoffrey J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Ministry of Environment British Columbia   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

CHANGE DETECTION; COMMERCIAL TOOLS; ITS APPLICATIONS; LAND-COVER CHANGE; REGISTERED IMAGES; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; SPATIAL ACCURACY; USER-DEFINED PARAMETERS;

REMOTE SENSING;

AUTOMATION; DIGITAL MAPPING; DIGITIZATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERNET; LAND COVER; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIMBER HARVESTING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 69549108532     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.75.8.941     Document Type: Article

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