A contemporary decennial examination of changing agricultural field sizes using Landsat time series data

Geo: Geography and Environment

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 33-54

  White, Emma V ^a   Roy, David P ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agriculture; change; drivers; field size; land cover land use

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; LITERATURE REVIEW; PADDY FIELD; POLITICAL CHANGE; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME SERIES;

ALBANIA; ARGENTINA; BRAZIL; FRANCE; MALAYSIA; UNITED STATES; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 84962505429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20544049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/geo2.4     Document Type: Article

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