Land classification and change intensity analysis in a coastal watershed of Southeast China

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 11640-11658

  Zhou, Pei ^a   Huang, Jinliang ^a   Pontius Jr , Robert Gilmore ^b   Hong, Huasheng ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal watershed; Intensity analysis; Land use and land cover; Stratified classification

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LAND USE; ORCHARDS;

CLASSIFICATION METHODOLOGIES; COASTAL WATERSHEDS; INTENSITY ANALYSIS; JIULONG RIVER; LAND CHANGES; LAND USE AND LAND COVER; TEMPORAL DIFFERENCES; TIME INTERVAL;

WATERSHEDS;

EID: 84903746430     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s140711640     Document Type: Article

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