Application of Satellite Data and Data Mining Algorithms in Estimating Coverage Percent (Case study: Nadoushan Rangelands, Ardakan Plain, Yazd, Iran)

Subject Areas : Remote Sensing (RS)

Zinab Mirshekari ¹ ( Department of Nature Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Ardakan University, Ardakan, Iran. )
Majid Sadeghinia ² ( Department of Nature Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Ardakan University, Ardakan, Iran )
Saeideh Kalantari ³ ( Department of Nature Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Ardakan University, Ardakan, Iran )
Maryam Asadi ⁴ ( Department of Reclamation of Arid and Mountainous Regions Engineering, Faculty of Natural Resources, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran )

Received: 2018-11-11 Accepted : 2019-03-30 Published : 2019-10-01

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