High spatial resolution land use and land cover mapping of the Brazilian Legal Amazon in 2008 using Landsat-5/TM and MODIS data

High spatial resolution land use and land cover mapping of the Brazilian Legal Amazon in 2008 using Landsat-5/TM and MODIS data

ABSTRACT Understanding spatial patterns of land use and land cover is essential for studies addressing biodiversity, climate change and environmental modeling as well as for the design and monitoring of land use policies. The aim of this study was to create a detailed map of land use land cover of t...

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Main Authors: Cláudio Aparecido de ALMEIDA, Alexandre Camargo COUTINHO, Júlio César Dalla Mora ESQUERDO, Marcos ADAMI, Adriano VENTURIERI, Cesar Guerreiro DINIZ, Nadine DESSAY, Laurent DURIEUX, Alessandra Rodrigues GOMES
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia 2016-09-01
Series:Acta Amazonica
Subjects:
Remote Sensing
Tropical Deforestation
TerraClass
Image Processing
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