Historical tropical successional forest cover mapped with landsat mss imagery

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 7902-7935

  Sloan, Sean ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SATELLITES; TROPICS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CARBON FLUXES; GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS; HABITAT CHANGE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFICATIONS; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER SYSTEMS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL FOREST;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AVHRR; FOREST COVER; FOREST DYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL FOREST;

FORESTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 84870685135     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2012.703344     Document Type: Article

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