Mapping the timing of cropland abandonment and recultivation in northern Kazakhstan using annual Landsat time series

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 213, Issue , 2018, Pages 49-60

  Dara, Andrey ^a,b   Baumann, Matthias ^a   Kuemmerle, Tobias ^a   Pflugmacher, Dirk ^a   Rabe, Andreas ^a   Griffiths, Patrick ^a   Hölzel, Norbert ^c   Kamp, Johannes ^c   Freitag, Martin ^c   Hostert, Patrick ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agricultural abandonment; Change detection; Class probability; Data scarcity; Farmland; LandTrendr; Post soviet land use change; Temporal resolution

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DIGITAL STORAGE; DYNAMICS; LAND USE; ORGANIC CARBON; TIME SERIES; TIMING CIRCUITS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL ABANDONMENTS; CHANGE DETECTION; CLASS PROBABILITIES; DATA SCARCITY; FARMLAND; LANDTRENDR; LANDUSE CHANGE; POST-SOVIET LAND-USE CHANGE; RECULTIVATION; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

MAPPING;

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CULTIVATION; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; GRASSLAND; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; PRECISION; PROBABILITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

KAZAKHSTAN; USSR;

EID: 85047085821     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.05.005     Document Type: Article

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