Assessment of mangrove forests in the Pacific region using Landsat imagery

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Bhattarai, Bibek ^a   Giri, Chandra ^b  

^a United Nations Environment Programme   (United States)

^b Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS)   (United States)

Author keywords

Landsat; mangroves; mapping; Pacific islands; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING;

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY; LANDSAT; MANGROVES; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; UNSUPERVISED IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

FORESTRY;

CLASSIFICATION; FORESTRY; GIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MANGROVE; MAPPING; PACIFIC ISLANDS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

EID: 84855233518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3563584     Document Type: Article

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