Large area mapping of land‐cover change in Rondônia using multitemporal spectral mixture analysis and decision tree classifiers

We describe spatiotemporal variation in land cover over 80,000 km 2 in central Rondônia. We use a multistage process to map primary forest, pasture, second growth, urban, rock/savanna, and water using 33 Landsat scenes acquired over three contiguous areas between 1975 and 1999. Accuracy of the 1999 ... View More