Mapping Cropland abandonment in the Aral Sea Basin with MODIS time series

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Löw, Fabian ^a,b   Prishchepov, Alexander V ^c,d,e   Waldner, François ^f,g   Dubovyk, Olena ^h   Akramkhanov, Akmal ^a   Biradar, Chandrashekhar ^a   Lamers, John P A ^h  

^a International Center for Agriculture Res in Dry Areas (ICARDA)   (Egypt)

^b MapTailor Geospatial Consulting   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES IAMO   (Germany)

^e KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^g CSIRO   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abandoned cropland; Aral Sea Basin; Change detection; Decision fusion; Land use; MODIS

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FOOD STORAGE; FOOD SUPPLY; POPULATION STATISTICS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES;

ABANDONED CROPLANDS; ARAL SEA; CHANGE DETECTION; DECISION FUSION; MODIS;

LAND USE;

EID: 85042534502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10020159     Document Type: Article

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