Remotely sensing the spatial and temporal land cover changes in Eastern Mau forest reserve and Lake Nakuru drainage basin, Kenya

Applied Geography

Volumn 41, Issue , 2013, Pages 75-86

  Were, K O ^a,b   Dick, Ø B ^a   Singh, B R ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b KENYA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Change detection; Eastern Mau; Hybrid classification; Kenya; Lake Nakuru; Land cover; Remote sensing; Spatial reclassification

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE BASIN; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND TYPE; LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUSTAINABILITY; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

KENYA; LAKE NAKURU; MAU FOREST; RIFT VALLEY;

EID: 84877036899     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2013.03.017     Document Type: Article

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