Agricultural land use mapping in the sudanian savanna of West Africa: Current status and future possibilities

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 6293-6296

  Forkuor, Gerald ^a   Landmann, Tobias ^a   Conrad, Christopher ^a   Dech, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Land cover; Land use; Landsat; West Africa

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; AGRICULTURAL LAND USE; ANALYSIS OF DATA; CROPPING SYSTEMS; CURRENT STATUS; DECISION TREE CLASSIFICATION; FIELD DATA; IRRIGATED LANDS; LAND COVER; LAND USE CLASS; LANDSAT; MULTI-TEMPORAL; NATURAL VEGETATION; RAIN FED AGRICULTURE; RAINY SEASONS; SATELLITE SYSTEM; SMALL SCALE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TERRASAR-X; WEST AFRICA;

AGRICULTURE; DECISION TREES; GEOLOGY; LAND USE; PHENOLS; REMOTE SENSING;

MAPPING;

EID: 84873108174     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352698     Document Type: Conference Paper

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