Estimating deforestation in tropical humid and dry forests in Madagascar from 2000 to 2010 using multi-date Landsat satellite images and the random forests classifier

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 139, Issue , 2013, Pages 68-80

  Grinand, Clovis ^a,b,c   Rakotomalala, Fety ^c,d   Gond, Valéry ^e   Vaudry, Romuald ^c   Bernoux, Martial ^f   Vieilledent, Ghislain ^e  

^a ETC Terra   (France)

^b MONTPELLIER SUPAGRO   (France)

^c Etc Terra   (Madagascar)

^d IOGA   (Madagascar)

^e CIRAD   (France)

^f UMR ECO SOLS   (France)

Author keywords

Change detection; Classification; Deforestation; Land cover; Landsat TM; Machine learning; Madagascar; Random forests; REDD+

Indexed keywords

CHANGE DETECTION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT TM; MADAGASCAR; RANDOM FORESTS; REDD;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLASSIFIERS; CONSERVATION; DECISION TREES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PIXELS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPICS;

DEFORESTATION;

DEFORESTATION; DRY FOREST; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL FOREST; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLASSIFICATION; CONSERVATION; DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; FORESTS; LAND USE; MADAGASCAR;

MADAGASCAR;

EID: 84882993219     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.07.008     Document Type: Article

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