Assessment of the three factors affecting Myanmar's forest cover change using Landsat and MODIS vegetation continuous fields data

International Journal of Digital Earth

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 562-585

  Liu, Fu Jiang ^a,b   Huang, Chengquan ^b   Pang, Yong ^c   Li, Mengxue ^b   Song, Dan Xia ^b   Song, Xiao Peng ^b   Channan, Saurabh ^b   Sexton, Joseph O ^b   Jiang, Die ^a   Zhang, Ping ^a   Guo, Yan ^a   Li, Yao Feng ^a   Townshend, John R ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

Author keywords

deforestation; Forest cover change; Landsat; Myanmar; protected area; roads

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; CONSERVATION; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

FOREST COVER CHANGE; LANDSAT; MYANMARS; PROTECTED AREAS; ROADS;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; AUTOMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOREST COVER; LANDSAT; MODIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; VEGETATION MAPPING;

MYANMAR;

EID: 84949200773     PISSN: 17538947     EISSN: 17538955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2015.1111451     Document Type: Article

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