Mapping and interpreting historical land cover/land use changes in a Natura 2000 site using earth observational data: The case of Nestos delta, Greece

Applied Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 312-320

  Mallinis, Georgios ^a   Emmanoloudis, Dimitrios ^b   Giannakopoulos, Vasileios ^c   Maris, Fotis ^a   Koutsias, Nikos ^d  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b TEI of Kavala ^*  (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aerial photography; Change detection; Land cover land use changes; Landscape pattern; Satellite image; Spatio temporal; Transition

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DETECTION METHOD; HABITAT RESTORATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MAPPING METHOD; NATURE RESERVE; PERSISTENCE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; GREECE; KAVALA; NESTOS DELTA;

EID: 78649443322     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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