Multi-sensor monitoring system for forest cover change assessment in central africa

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 110-120

  Desclée, Baudouin ^a   Simonetti, Dario ^a   Mayaux, Philippe ^a   Achard, Frédéric ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Change detection; Deforestation; DMC; Forest mapping and monitoring; Landsat TM; Multi temporal analysis; Object based classification; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; DEFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CHANGE DETECTION; DMC; FOREST MAPPING; LANDSAT TM; MULTI-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS;

SENSORS;

DATA SET; DEFORESTATION; FOREST COVER; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPOT;

DEFORESTATION; MAPPING; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS;

CENTRAL AFRICA;

EID: 84897110323     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2240263     Document Type: Article

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