Detection and validation of land-cover change at coarse spatial scales in Africa

Author

Borak, Jordan S. ; Lambin, Eric F. ; Strahler, Alan H.

Author_Institution

Center for Remote Sensing, Boston Univ., MA, USA

Volume

5

fYear

1998

fDate

6-10 Jul 1998

Firstpage

2518

Abstract

Successful land-cover change analysis requires selection of an appropriate set of variables for measuring and characterizing change. Coarse-resolution satellite sensors offer the advantage of frequent coverage of large areas which facilitates the monitoring of surface processes. The current research examines the ability of several temporal change metrics to detect land-cover change in sub-Saharan Africa using remote sensing data collected at a coarse spatial resolution

Keywords

geophysical signal processing; geophysical techniques; remote sensing; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; Africa; coarse scale; coarse spatial scale; detection; geophysical measurement technique; land cover change; land surface; satellite remote sensing; sub-Saharan Africa; subSaharan Africa; temporal change metric; terrain mapping; validation; Africa; Earth Observing System; Image databases; Layout; MODIS; Remote monitoring; Remote sensing; Satellites; Spatial databases; Spatial resolution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4403-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1998.702264

Filename

702264