Remote sensing and object-based techniques for mapping fine-scale industrial disturbances

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 51-57

  Powers, Ryan P ^a   Hermosilla, Txomin ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Chen, Gang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

(GEOBIA); Boreal; Disturbance; Feature extraction; Geographic object based image analysis; Oil sands

Indexed keywords

BOREAL; BOREAL FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND CLASSIFICATION; MAPPING; OIL SAND; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPOT;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

EID: 84911365176     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2014.06.015     Document Type: Article

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