Mapping the expansion of boom crops in Mainland Southeast Asia using dense time stacks of landsat data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Hurni, Kaspar ^a   Schneider, Annemarie ^b   Heinimann, Andreas ^c   Nong, Duong H ^d   Fox, Jefferson ^a  

^a EAST WEST CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Boom crops; Land cover change; Landsat; Remote sensing; Southeast Asia; SVM; Time series

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPOSTING; EXPANSION; FORESTRY; LAND USE; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TIME SERIES; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSAT; REGULARIZATION PARAMETERS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STATISTICAL LEARNING TECHNIQUES; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

CROPS;

EID: 85017642327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9040320     Document Type: Article

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