Tracking land use/land cover dynamics in cloud prone areas using moderate resolution satellite data: A case study in Central Africa

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 6683-6709

  Basnet, Bikash ^a   Vodacek, Anthony ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central Africa; Change detection; Cloud prone region; Land cover; Landsat; Random forest classifier; Topographic correction

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DECISION TREES; DEFORESTATION; DYNAMICS; MAPS; REFORESTATION; TRACKING (POSITION);

CENTRAL AFRICA; CHANGE DETECTION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFIER; TOPOGRAPHIC CORRECTION;

LAND USE;

DATA; ILLUMINATION; SATELLITES;

EID: 84933527251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70606683     Document Type: Article

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