The use of satellite imagery for the identification and protection of important oak areas

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8795, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Papatheodoulou A , Athina ^a   Michael, Kyriaki ^a   Greenwood, Timothy ^a   Klonis, Panagiotis ^a   Taylor, Lyndon ^a   Kiriakou, Ismini ^a   Proteriotis, Michael Rafael ^a   Sergides, Lefkios ^a   Ioannou, Manuel ^a   Viktora, Marios ^a   Symons, Nicholas ^a  

^a Terra Cypria Cyprus Conservation Foundation   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Google Earth; important oak areas; Quercus infectoria; satellite imagery

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION; FIELD INSPECTION; GOOGLE EARTHS; IMPORTANT OAK AREAS; POTENTIAL HABITAT; QUERCUS; SPATIAL SCALE; SYSTEM DYNAMICS;

CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SURVEYS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84883717481     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2028893     Document Type: Conference Paper

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