Monitoring land cover in Acre State, western Brazilian Amazonia, using multitemporal remote sensing data

International Journal of Image and Data Fusion

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 325-335

  Shimabukuro, Yosio Edemir ^a   Duarte, Valdete ^a   Arai, Egidio ^a   Freitas, Ramon M ^a   Martini, Paulo Roberto ^a   Lima, André ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonia region; Digital classification; Land cover map; Landsat data; Multisensor data; Multitemporal analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958747124     PISSN: 19479832     EISSN: 19479824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19479832.2010.505177     Document Type: Article

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