Monitoring land cover changes in Isfahan Province, Iran using Landsat satellite data

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 187, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Soffianian, Alireza ^a   Madanian, Maliheh ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Iran; Isfahan Province; Land cover change; Landsat MSS TM; Maximum likelihood classifier

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LAND USE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; SATELLITES;

IRAN; ISFAHAN; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSAT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIERS;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA;

ACCURACY; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; INDUSTRIALIZATION; IRAN; KAPPA STATISTICS; LAND USE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; POPULATION GROWTH; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TRAFFIC; AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; URBANIZATION;

ESFAHAN [ESFAHAN (PRV)]; ESFAHAN [IRAN]; IRAN;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; IRAN; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84938350501     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-015-4442-5     Document Type: Article

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