The effect of Landsat ETM/ETM+ image acquisition dates on the detection of agricultural land abandonment in Eastern Europe

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 126, Issue , 2012, Pages 195-209

  Prishchepov, Alexander V ^a,b   Radeloff, Volker C ^a   Dubinin, Maxim ^a,c   Alcantara, Camilo ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES IAMO   (Germany)

^c SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE QUERÉTARO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; Agricultural land abandonment; Change detection; Eastern Europe; Land cover change; Land use; Land use model; Land use pattern; Landsat; Maximum likelihood classifier; Multi date; Multi seasonal; Support vector machines; SVM

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CHANGE DETECTION; EASTERN EUROPE; LAND USE MODELS; LAND USE PATTERN; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSAT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIERS; MULTI-DATE; MULTI-SEASONAL; SVM;

CULTIVATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; REMOTE SENSING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

LAND USE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GRASSLAND; GROWING SEASON; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSAT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

EUROPE;

EID: 84863510477     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.08.017     Document Type: Article

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