Detecting urban destruction in Syria: A Landsat-based approach

Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages 30-36

  Marx, Andrew J ^a  

^a CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict; Human rights; Humanitarian; Landsat; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969506242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23529385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rsase.2016.04.005     Document Type: Article

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