Land use and land cover change detection in the western Nile delta of Egypt using remote sensing data

Applied Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 483-494

  Abd El Kawy, O R ^a,b   Rod J K ^b   Ismail, H A ^a   Suliman, A S ^a  

^a Alexandria University   (Egypt)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Change detection; Land cover; Land use; Post classification comparison; Western Nile delta

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA INTERPRETATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; REMOTE SENSING;

EGYPT; NILE DELTA;

EID: 78649730596     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.10.012     Document Type: Article

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