Characterizing forest change using community-based monitoring data and landsat time series

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Devries, Ben ^a   Pratihast, Arun Kumar ^a   Verbesselt, Jan ^a   Kooistra, Lammert ^a   Herold, Martin ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ETHIOPIA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM FOREST; SCORING SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; MACHINE LEARNING; PHOTOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; TREE;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MACHINE LEARNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 84962135861     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147121     Document Type: Article

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