Assessment of forest degradation in Brazilian Amazon due to selective logging and fires using time series of fraction images derived from Landsat ETM+ images

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 773-782

  Shimabukuro, Yosio Edemir ^a,b   Beuchle, René ^a   Grecchi, Rosana Cristina ^a   Achard, Frédéric ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DEFORESTATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

BRAZILIAN AMAZON; CARBON EMISSIONS; FOREST DEGRADATION; FRACTION IMAGES; LANDSAT ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPER PLUS (ETM+) IMAGE; MULTI-TEMPORAL IMAGE; SELECTIVE LOGGING; SOIL FRACTIONS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

CARBON EMISSION; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST FIRE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SELECTIVE LOGGING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPICAL FOREST;

FIRES; IMAGES; LOGGING; SATELLITES;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL; MATO GROSSO;

EID: 84911378581     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2014.967880     Document Type: Article

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