A River Basin over the course of time: Multi-temporal analyses of land surface dynamics in the Yellow River Basin (China) based on medium resolution remote sensing data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Wohlfart, Christian ^a   Liu, Gaohuan ^b   Huang, Chong ^b,c   Kuenzer, Claudia ^d  

^a Company for Remote Sensing and Environmental Research ^*  (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Land cover change; MODIS; Phenology; Random forest; Time series analysis; Yellow River Basin

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; DECISION TREES; DYNAMICS; LAND USE; NOISE ABATEMENT; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; VEGETATION; WATERSHEDS;

LAND-COVER CHANGE; MODIS; PHENOLOGY; RANDOM FORESTS; YELLOW RIVER BASIN;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84962593524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8030186     Document Type: Article

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