Multi-temporal Forest Cover Change and Forest Density Trend Detection in a Mediterranean Environment

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1188-1198

  Symeonakis, Elias ^a   Caccetta, Peter A ^b   Wallace, Jeremy F ^b   Arnau Rosalen, Eva ^c   Calvo Cases, Adolfo ^c   Koukoulas, Sotirios ^d  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

change detection; classification; conditional probability network; density trends; forest cover; Landsat; Mediterranean; multi temporal

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; FORESTRY; MAPPING; PHOTOMAPPING;

CHANGE DETECTION; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; FOREST COVER; LANDSAT; MEDITERRANEAN; MULTI-TEMPORAL;

REFORESTATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FOREST COVER; FOREST DYNAMICS; LANDSAT; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PERENNIAL PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WOODY PLANT;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84939150248     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2405     Document Type: Article

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