Generation of up to date land cover maps for Central Asia

Environmental Science and Engineering

Volumn 0, Issue , 2014, Pages 329-346

  Klein, Igor ^a   Gessner, Ursula ^b   Künzer, Claudia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central Asia; Land cover maps; MODIS data

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; EARTH (PLANET); LAND USE; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUPERVISED LEARNING; VEGETATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; INFRARED DEVICES; RADIOMETERS;

ARAL SEA; CENTRAL ASIA; CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; CLASSIFICATION MAPS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES VARIABILITIES; LAND COVER; LAND COVER MAPS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER DATUM; STUDY AREAS; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; NEAR INFRA-RED REFLECTANCES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

EID: 85108424325     PISSN: 18635520     EISSN: 18635539     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-01017-5_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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