Land cover change monitoring using landsat MSS/TM satellite image data over west Africa between 1975 and 1990

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 658-676

  Vittek, Marian ^a   Brink, Andreas ^a   Donnay, Francois ^b   Simonetti, Dario ^a   Desclée, Baudouin ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b ENGINEERING INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

Change detection; Land cover change; Landsat; Sampling; West africa

Indexed keywords

CHANGE DETECTION; DATA PROCESSING METHODS; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSAT; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; WEST AFRICA;

COASTAL ZONES; DATA PROCESSING; SAMPLING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA HANDLING; FORESTRY; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; SATELLITES;

FORESTRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

COASTS; DATA PROCESSING; FORESTRY; LAND USE; SAMPLING; SATELLITES; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84893412626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6010658     Document Type: Article

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