Linking land cover dynamics with driving forces in mountain landscape of the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 38, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-14

  Regos, Adrián ^a   Ninyerola, Miquel ^b   Moré, Gerard ^c   Pons, Xavier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CREAF   (Spain)

Author keywords

change drivers; land abandonment; Land cover changes; Landsat time series; supervised classification; wildfires

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953347069     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2014.11.010     Document Type: Article

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