Mapping Prosopis juliflora in West Somaliland with Landsat 8 Satellite Imagery and Ground Information

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 494-506

  Meroni, Michele ^a   Ng, Wai Tim ^b   Rembold, Felix ^a   Leonardi, Ugo ^c   Atzberger, Clement ^b   Gadain, Hussein ^c   Shaiye, Muse ^c  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Kenya)

Author keywords

invasive alien species; Landsat 8; mapping; Prosopis juliflora; remote sensing; Somaliland

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; IMAGE ACQUISITION; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING;

ARID AND SEMI-ARID AREAS; INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES; LANDSAT; PROSOPIS JULIFLORA; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFIER; SOMALILAND; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL SIGNATURE;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; LANDSAT; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TREE;

SOMALIA;

PROSOPIS JULIFLORA;

EID: 84991408424     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2611     Document Type: Article

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