Land use/land cover change analysis using object-based classification approach in Munessa-Shashemene landscape of the ethiopian highlands

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2411-2435

  Kindu, Mengistie ^a   Schneider, Thomas ^a   Teketay, Demel ^b   Knoke, Thomas ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b BOTSWANA COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE   (Botswana)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; Ethiopia; GIS; Image; Landsat; Rapideye; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ETHIOPIA; IMAGE; LANDSAT; RAPIDEYE;

FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

ETHIOPIA; GIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

EID: 84880337702     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5052411     Document Type: Article

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