Mapping wetland cover in the greater Himalayan region: A hybrid method combining multispectral and ecological characteristics

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1083-1094

  Li, Zhuoqing ^a,b,c   Xu, Jianchu ^a,d   Shilpakar, Rajendra L ^e   Ma, Xing ^c,d  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Yunnan Academy of Ecological and Environmental Sciences   (China)

^d WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^e International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development   (China)

Author keywords

Greater Himalayan region; High altitude wetlands lakes; Hybrid model; Wetland extraction

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEMS; EXTRACTION; GLOBAL WARMING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAKES; LAND USE; RADIOMETERS;

ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; GREATER HIMALAYAN REGION; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE DATA; HIGH-ALTITUDE WETLANDS/LAKES; HYBRID MODEL; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER DATUM; MULTISPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS;

WETLANDS;

ALTITUDE; DIGITAL IMAGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND COVER; LAND USE PLANNING; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

HIMALAYAS;

EID: 84892670492     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-013-2512-y     Document Type: Article

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