Monitoring cropland changes along the nile river in Egypt over past three decades (1984–2015) using remote sensing

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2017, Pages 4459-4480

  Xu, Yidi ^a   Yu, Le ^a,b   Zhao, Yuanyuan ^a   Feng, Duoleng ^a   Cheng, Yuqi ^c   Cai, Xueliang ^d   Gong, Peng ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

^c HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD SUPPLY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LANDFORMS; SEA LEVEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL AREAS; AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION ERRORS; ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TIME SERIES INFORMATIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DECADAL VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LANDSAT; MAPPING METHOD; REMOTE SENSING;

EGYPT; NILE RIVER;

EID: 85030659846     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2017.1323285     Document Type: Article

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