Analysing land cover and land use change in the Matobo National Park and surroundings in Zimbabwe

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 194, Issue , 2017, Pages 278-286

  Scharsich, Valeska ^a   Mtata, Kupakwashe ^a   Hauhs, Michael ^a   Lange, Holger ^a,b   Bogner, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Change detection; Change vector analysis; Fast Track Reform of Zimbabwe; Land use and land cover; Matobo National Park; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING;

CHANGE DETECTION; CHANGE VECTOR ANALYSIS; LAND USE AND LAND COVER; NATIONAL PARKS; ZIMBABWE;

LAND USE;

DETECTION METHOD; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; OWNERSHIP; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UNESCO; VECTOR; WORLD HERITAGE SITE;

BULAWAYO [ZIMBABWE]; MATOBO NATIONAL PARK; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 85017098928     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.03.037     Document Type: Article

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