Monitoring forest cover loss using multiple data streams, a case study of a tropical dry forest in Bolivia

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 107, Issue , 2015, Pages 112-125

  Dutrieux, Loïc Paul ^a   Verbesselt, Jan ^a   Kooistra, Lammert ^a   Herold, Martin ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Change detection; Deforestation; Landsat; MODIS; Spatial context; Time series

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DEFORESTATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES;

CHANGE DETECTION; LANDSAT; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; MULTIPLE DATA STREAMS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; OMISSION AND COMMISSION ERRORS; SPATIAL CONTEXT;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; DATA SET; DEFORESTATION; DRY FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST COVER; LANDSAT; MODIS; NDVI; PIXEL; SATELLITE DATA; STREAMWATER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

BOLIVIA;

EID: 84938989180     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2015.03.015     Document Type: Article

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