An evaluation of changes in a mountainous rural landscape of Northeast Portugal using remotely sensed data

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 253-261

  Pôças, Isabel ^a   Cunha, Mario ^a   Marcal, Andre R S ^a   Pereira, Luis S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Agroenvironmental policies; Landsat; Landscape dynamics; Semi natural mountain meadows; Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CROPS; MAMMALS; SUPERVISED LEARNING; VEGETATION;

CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITES; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS; MOUNTAIN MEADOW; NORMALISED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT;

LANDFORMS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGING POPULATION; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AUTOCHTHON; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE; LIVESTOCK; MEADOW; MOUNTAIN REGION; POLICY MAKING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; RURAL AREA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHRUB; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION INDEX; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

PORTUGAL;

BOVINAE;

EID: 79955675276     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.02.030     Document Type: Article

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