Monitoring desertification by remote sensing using the Tasselled Cap transform for long-term change detection

Natural Hazards

Volumn 83, Issue , 2016, Pages 223-237

  Zanchetta, Anna ^a   Bitelli, Gabriele ^a   Karnieli, Arnon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Azraq Oasis; Change detection; Change Vector Analysis; Desertification; Landsat 8 OLI; Tasselled Cap transform

Indexed keywords

DESERTIFICATION; LANDSAT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AZRAQ OASIS; JORDAN; ZARQA;

EID: 84978680222     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-016-2342-9     Document Type: Article

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