Mapping the Philippines' mangrove forests using Landsat imagery

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2972-2981

  Long, Jordan B ^a   Giri, Chandra ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Landsat; Mangrove; Mapping; Unsupervised classification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AVICENNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; PHILIPPINES; TELECOMMUNICATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREE;

ALGORITHMS; AVICENNIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GEOGRAPHY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHILIPPINES; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; TREES;

EID: 79953296010     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110302972     Document Type: Article

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