Long-term land cover dynamics by multi-temporal classification across the Landsat-5 record

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 128, Issue , 2013, Pages 246-258

  Sexton, Joseph O ^a,b   Urban, Dean L ^a   Donohue, Michael J ^a   Song, Conghe ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Land cover change; Land cover dynamics; Landcover; Landsat; Multi temporal; Sampling bias; Supervised classification; Validation

Indexed keywords

LAND COVER; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSAT; MULTI-TEMPORAL; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; VALIDATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DYNAMICS; FORESTRY; SEMANTICS;

LANDFORMS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; DATABASE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST; HERB; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; MAP; SAMPLING; URBAN GROWTH;

CLASSIFICATION; DATA BASES; FORESTRY; LAND USE; NORTH CAROLINA; SATELLITES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

NORTH CAROLINA; PIEDMONT [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84868583959     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.10.010     Document Type: Article

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