Rank-based methods for selection of landscape metrics for land cover pattern change detection

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Sinha, Priyakant ^a   Kumar, Lalit ^a   Reid, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Change detection; Correlation; Image classification; Land cover; Landscape; Pattern metric; Spatial resolution; Temporal resolution

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; FRACTALS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

AUSTRALIA; CHANGE DETECTION; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE; PATTERN METRIC; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 84962624045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8020107     Document Type: Article

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