Extent and area of swidden in montane mainland Southeast Asia: Estimation by multi-step thresholds with Landsat-8 OLI data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Li, Peng ^a   Feng, Zhiming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Fallow; Landsat; Montane mainland Southeast Asia; Multi step threshold; Swidden agriculture; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957872786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8010044     Document Type: Article

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