The use of Landsat imagery to assess large-scale forest cover changes in space and time, minimizing false-positive changes

Applied Geography

Volumn 41, Issue , 2013, Pages 147-157

  Borrelli, Pasquale ^a   Sandia Rondón, Luis Alfonso ^b   Schütt, Brigitta ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Central Italy; Clear cut mapping; Coppice forest; Forest monitoring; High resolution remotely sensed images; Image differencing change detection

Indexed keywords

CLEARCUTTING; FOREST COVER; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

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EID: 84877881784     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2013.03.010     Document Type: Article

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