Re-growth of mangrove forests of Guinea-Bissau

Proceedings, 33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, ISRSE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 677-680

  Lourenco P ^a   Cabral, A I R ^a   Oom, D ^a   Vasconcelos, M J P ^a   Catarino, L ^a   Temudo, M P ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Landsat images; Mangrove forests; Tropical deforestation; West Africa

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM; CLASSIFICATION TREES; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; LANDSAT IMAGES; MANGROVE FOREST; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTOR; TROPICAL DEFORESTATION; WEST AFRICA;

DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EID: 84879919344     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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