Remote sensing based multi-temporal land cover classification and change detection in northwestern ethiopia

European Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 121-139

  Zewdie, Worku ^a   Csaplovics, Elmar ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Landsat Imagery; Net change; Persistence; Semi arid; Support vector machines (SVM); Swap change

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ARID REGIONS; ECOLOGY; EXPANSION; FORESTRY; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

LANDSAT IMAGERY; NET CHANGE; PERSISTENCE; SEMI ARID; SWAP CHANGE;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FIELD SURVEY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEMIARID REGION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TEMPORAL PERIOD; WOODLAND;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION; ETHIOPIA; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 84934997816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22797254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20154808     Document Type: Article

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