A texture-based land cover classification for the delineation of a shifting cultivation landscape in the lao PDR using landscape metrics

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3377-3396

  Hurni, Kaspar ^a   Hett, Cornelia ^a   Epprecht, Michael ^a   Messerli, Peter ^a   Heinimann, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Landscape metrics; Remote sensing; Shifting cultivation; Texture

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; LANDSCAPE METRICS; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; OBJECT ORIENTED CLASSIFICATION; SHIFTING CULTIVATIONS; TWO-STEP APPROACH; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; REMOTE SENSING; TEXTURES;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; TEXTURE;

EID: 84881490828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5073377     Document Type: Article

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