Characterizing wetland dynamics: A post-classification change detection analysis of the East Kolkata Wetlands using open source satellite data

Geocarto International

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 273-287

  Parihar, Seema Mehra ^a   Sarkar, Soma ^b   Dutta, Amitava ^c   Sharma, Shilpi ^a   Dutta, Tanushree ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

change detection analysis; East Kolkata Wetlands; Maximum Likelihood Classifier; open source data

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WETLAND;

EAST KOLKATA WETLANDS; INDIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 84879528935     PISSN: 10106049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2012.705337     Document Type: Article

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