Mapping and monitoring of land use changes in post-Soviet western Ukraine using remote sensing data

Applied Geography

Volumn 55, Issue , 2014, Pages 155-164

  Stefanski, Jan ^a   Chaskovskyy, Oleh ^b   Waske, Björn ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UKRAINIAN NATIONAL FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Change detection; ERS SAR; Land management; Landsat; Multisensor; Object based

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ERS-1; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; MAPPING METHOD; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE SENSOR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

UKRAINE; USSR;

EID: 84907698848     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.08.003     Document Type: Article

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