Evaluation of forest cover estimates for Haiti using supervised classification of Landsat data

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 203-216

  Churches, Christopher E ^a   Wampler, Peter J ^a   Sun, Wanxiao ^a   Smith, Andrew J ^a  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deforestation; FAO; Fuzzy classification; Image normalization; Land cover; Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; DEFORESTATION; FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATION; FOREST COVER; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER;

HAITI;

EID: 84897545250     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2014.01.020     Document Type: Article

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