Monitoring the dynamics of land cover in the Lake Kivu region using multi-temporal Landsat imagery

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 4250-4253

  Basnet, Bikash ^a   Vodacek, Anthony ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

change detection; Land cover change; Landsat; multi year composite

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LAKES;

CHANGE DETECTION; CHARACTERIZATION METHODS; FOREST PROTECTION; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSAT; LANDSAT IMAGERY; POST CLASSIFICATION; RAPID DEFORESTATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84911408195     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947427     Document Type: Conference Paper

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