Monitoring land cover changes in a newly reclaimed area of Egypt using multi-temporal Landsat data

Applied Geography

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 592-605

  Bakr, N ^a,c   Weindorf, D C ^a   Bahnassy, M H ^b   Marei, S M ^b   El Badawi, M M ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Alexandria University   (Egypt)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Bustan 3 area; Hybrid classification; Land cover changes; Landsat imagery; NDVI

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND RECLAMATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EGYPT;

EID: 77956647472     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2009.10.008     Document Type: Article

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