Land cover mapping and data availability in critical terrestrial ecoregions: A global perspective with Landsat thematic mapper and enhanced thematic mapper plus data

Biological Conservation

Volumn 190, Issue , 2015, Pages 34-42

  Yu, Le ^a,b   Shi, Yichuan ^c,d   Gong, Peng ^a,b,e  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

^c IUCN   (Switzerland)

^d UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Data availability; Land cover; Landsat; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; ECOREGION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EID: 84930666001     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.05.009     Document Type: Article

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