Classification and assessment of land cover and land use change in southern Ghana using dense stacks of Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 184, Issue , 2016, Pages 396-409

  Coulter, Lloyd L ^a   Stow, Douglas A ^a   Tsai, Yu Hsin ^a   Ibanez, Nicholas ^a   Shih, Hsiao chien ^a   Kerr, Andrew ^a   Benza, Magdalena ^a   Weeks, John R ^a   Mensah, Foster ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Africa; Dense time stacks; Ghana; Land cover land use change; Landsat; Population; Temporal compositing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; POPULATION STATISTICS; VEGETATION;

AFRICA; COMPOSITING; DENSE-TIME; GHANA; LAND COVER LAND USE CHANGES; LANDSAT; POPULATION;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLOUD COVER; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; POPULATION GROWTH; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION INDEX;

GHANA;

EID: 84979610107     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.07.016     Document Type: Article

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