Reconstructing land use history from Landsat time-series: Case study of a swidden agriculture system in Brazil

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 47, Issue , 2016, Pages 112-124

  Dutrieux, Loïc P ^a   Jakovac, Catarina C ^a   Latifah, Siti H ^a   Kooistra, Lammert ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Land trajectories; Land use history; Landsat; Segmentation; Slash and burn agriculture; Swidden agriculture; Time series

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALGORITHM; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEGMENTATION; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; TIME SERIES;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL;

EID: 84988728359     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2015.11.018     Document Type: Article

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