Development of large-area land cover and forest change indicators using multi-sensor Landsat imagery: Application to the Humber River Basin, Canada

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 819-829

  Van Lier, O R ^a,b   Luther, J E ^b   Leckie, D G ^c   Bowers, W W ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Development of Forests (EOSD); Earth Observation for Sustainable; Ecosystem monitoring; Forest change; Indicators; Land cover; Landsat

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; FOREST DYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGERY; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; MONITORING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

EID: 84864402176     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2011.05.019     Document Type: Article

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