Mapping land management regimes in western Ukraine using optical and SAR data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 5279-5305

  Stefanski, Jan ^a   Kuemmerle, Tobias ^b   Chaskovskyy, Oleh ^c   Griffiths, Patrick ^b   Havryluk, Vassiliy ^c   Knorn, Jan ^b   Korol, Nikolas ^c   Sieber, Anika ^b   Waske, Björn ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UKRAINIAN NATIONAL FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Land management; Land systems; Land use intensity; Landsat; Multi sensor; Post soviet land use change; SAR; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; DECISION TREES; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FARMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; LAND USE; MAPPING; POPULATION STATISTICS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

LAND MANAGEMENTS; LAND SYSTEMS; LAND-USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; MULTI SENSOR; UKRAINE;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84986915770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6065279     Document Type: Article

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