Assessment of deforestation in the Lower Amazon floodplain using historical Landsat MSS/TM imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3446-3456

  Renó, Vivian F ^a   Novo, Evlyn M L M ^a   Suemitsu, Chieno ^b   Rennó, Camilo D ^a   Silva, Thiago S F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Deforestation; Floodplain forest; Land cover change; Landsat; Object oriented analysis

Indexed keywords

AMAZON; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSAT; OBJECT-ORIENTED ANALYSIS;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); DEFORESTATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; VEGETATION;

RIVERS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BARE SOIL; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOODPLAIN; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; GRASS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MODEL VALIDATION; OPEN WATER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHRUB; VEGETATION COVER;

DEFORESTATION; FORESTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; LINEAR PROGRAMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS; RIVERS;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; MANAUS;

POACEAE;

EID: 81355148837     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.08.008     Document Type: Article

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