Monitoring land use/land cover change using multi-temporal Landsat satellite images in an arid environment: A case study of El-Arish, Egypt

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1671-1681

  Badreldin, Nasem ^a   Goossens, Rudi ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arid region; Egypt; Image processing; Land use cover change; Landsat

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; ARID ENVIRONMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL FERTILITY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

EGYPT;

EID: 84899530835     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-013-0916-3     Document Type: Article

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