Quantifying successional land cover after clearing of tropical rainforest along forest frontiers in the Congo Basin

Physical Geography

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 417-440

  Akkermans, Tom ^a   Van Rompaey, Anton ^a   Van Lipzig, Nicole ^a   Moonen, Pieter ^a   Verbist, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Central Africa; Fallow cycle; GIS; Land cover change; Successional land cover

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DEFORESTATION; GIS; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; LEAF AREA INDEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFOREST; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPICAL FOREST;

CONGO BASIN; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; KISANGANI; ORIENTALE;

EID: 84889881568     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02723646.2013.855698     Document Type: Article

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