Overcoming limitations with landsat imagery for mapping of peat swamp forests in sundaland

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2595-2618

  Wijedasa, Lahiru S ^a,b,c   Sloan, Sean ^d   Michelakis, Dimitrios G ^e   Clements, Gopalasamy R ^c,d,f  

^a SINGAPORE BOTANIC GARDENS   (Singapore)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Rimba   (Malaysia)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Landsat; Satellite imagery; SLC Off; South East Asia

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE METHODS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLOUD COVER; COMPOSITING; DATA LOSS; GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE; GLOBAL COVERAGE; HOT SPOT; LANDSAT; LANDSAT 7; LANDSAT IMAGERY; LANDSAT IMAGES; LANDSAT SATELLITE; LANDSAT-5; MECHANICAL FAULTS; MISSING DATA; PEAT SWAMPS; POST CLASSIFICATION; SLC-OFF; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUNDALAND; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; PEAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WETLANDS;

MAPPING;

ASIA; BIODIVERSITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; PEAT; SATELLITES; SWAMPS; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES; WETLANDS;

EID: 84870675800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4092595     Document Type: Article

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