Regional land cover mapping and change detection in Central Asia using MODIS time-series

Applied Geography

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 219-234

  Klein, Igor ^a   Gessner, Ursula ^b   Kuenzer, Claudia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

C5.0; Central Asia; Decision tree; Land cover change; MODIS; Regional land cover classification

Indexed keywords

LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MODEL VALIDATION; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

CENTRAL ASIA;

EID: 84864417890     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2012.06.016     Document Type: Article

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