Integrated assessment of the environmental impact of an IDP camp in Sudan based on very high resolution multi-temporal satellite imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 126, Issue , 2012, Pages 27-38

  Hagenlocher, Michael ^a   Lang, Stefan ^a   Tiede, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Displaced population; Environmental impact; Integrated spatial indicators; Land use land cover; Object based image analysis (OBIA); Retrospective time series analysis; Weighted Natural Resource Depletion index (NRD w)

Indexed keywords

DISPLACED POPULATION; LAND USE/LAND COVER; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; RESOURCE DEPLETION; SPATIAL INDICATORS;

ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOOD SUPPLY; FORESTRY; NATURAL RESOURCES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOOD SECURITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; INDEX METHOD; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; NATURAL RESOURCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REFUGEE; RESOURCE DEPLETION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ECOSYSTEMS; FOOD; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; NATURAL RESOURCES; SATELLITES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

DARFUR; SUDAN;

EID: 84865550612     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.08.010     Document Type: Article

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