Mapping annual land use and land cover changes using MODIS time series

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

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3421-3427

  Yin, He ^a   Pflugmacher, Dirk ^a   Kennedy, Robert E ^b   Sulla Menashe, Damien ^b   Hostert, Patrick ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inner Mongolia; Land use and land use change; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); MODTrendr; Random forest (RF)

Indexed keywords

INNER MONGOLIA; LAND-USE CHANGE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODTRENDR; RANDOM FORESTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; MODIS; PROBABILITY; SATELLITE DATA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 84907992402     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2348411     Document Type: Article

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