Analyzing dune dynamics at the dune-field scale based on multi-temporal analysis of Landsat-TM images

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 119, Issue , 2012, Pages 105-117

  Mohamed, Ihab N L ^a   Verstraeten, Gert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Change detection; Dune dynamics; Landsat TM, dune fields; RGB clustering

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN SYSTEMS; CHANGE DETECTION; DATA SETS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; HIGH COSTS; HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATIONS; IMAGE CO-REGISTRATION; IMAGE PREPROCESSING; LANDSAT IMAGES; LANDSAT-TM, DUNE-FIELDS; MULTI-TEMPORAL; MULTI-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; NEAR-INFRARED BANDS; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; RGB-CLUSTERING; THEMATIC MAPS; WIND PATTERNS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DATA COMPRESSION; MAPS;

DYNAMICS;

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DUNE FIELD; EOLIAN PROCESS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84855790464     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.12.010     Document Type: Article

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