Detecting industrial oil palm plantations on Landsat images with Google Earth Engine

Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages 219-224

  Lee, Janice Ser Huay ^a   Wich, Serge ^b,c   Widayati, Atiek ^d   Koh, Lian Pin ^e  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agricultural expansion; Elaeis guineensis; Land cover classification; Land use change; Tropics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996605534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23529385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rsase.2016.11.003     Document Type: Article

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