Indicating structural connectivity in Amazonian rainforests from 1986 to 2010 using morphological image processing analysis

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 5187-5200

  Sun, Jing ^a   Southworth, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; IMAGE PROCESSING;

AMAZONIAN RAINFOREST; FOREST CONDITIONS; LANDSCAPE PROPERTIES; LONG-TERM CONSERVATION; MORPHOLOGICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; MORPHOLOGICAL SPATIAL PATTERN ANALYSES (MSPA); SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS; STRUCTURAL CONNECTIVITY;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

DEFORESTATION; FOREST COVER; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANDSCAPE; MORPHOLOGY; RAINFOREST; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TROPICAL FOREST;

CONSERVATION; DEFORESTATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PROCESSING;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 84876303702     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.788800     Document Type: Article

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