Feasibility study of land cover classification based on normalized difference vegetation index for landslide risk assessment

Geosciences (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Dahigamuwa, Thilanki ^a   Yu, Qiuyan ^b   Gunaratne, Manjriker ^a  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Land cover; Landslide risk; Logistic regression; Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI); Remotely sensed soil moisture; Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993945280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20763263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/geosciences6040045     Document Type: Article

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