Land cover characterization in West Sudanian savannas using seasonal features from annual landsat time series

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Liu, Jinxiu ^a   Heiskanen, Janne ^a   Aynekulu, Ermias ^b   Maeda, Eduardo Eiji ^a   Pellikka, Petri K E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Burkina Faso; Burnt area detection; Land cover classification; Landsat time series; Random forest; Tree crown cover

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INFRARED DEVICES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; TIME SERIES;

BURKINA FASO; BURNT AREAS; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT TIME SERIES; RANDOM FORESTS; TREE CROWNS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84971419912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8050365     Document Type: Article

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