Forest cover change in Miombo Woodlands: Modeling land cover of African dry tropical forests with linear spectral mixture analysis

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 165, Issue , 2015, Pages 203-215

  Mayes, Marc T ^a,b   Mustard, John F ^a   Melillo, Jerry M ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Dry tropical forests; Land cover change; Land cover variability; Miombo Woodlands; Spectral mixture analysis

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; LAND USE; MIXTURES; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

AFRICA; DRY TROPICAL FORESTS; LAND COVER VARIABILITY; LAND-COVER CHANGE; MIOMBO WOODLANDS; SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

CARBON BALANCE; FOREST COVER; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL FOREST; WOODLAND;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; IMAGES; LAND USE; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

TABORA [TANZANIA]; TANZANIA;

NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS;

EID: 84930227234     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.05.006     Document Type: Article

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