MONITORING TEMPORAL CHANGES IN USING SPOT SATELLITE IMAGERY

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Soil, Wlter and Environment Research Institute· Agriculture Research Center Glza·Egypt

Abstract

Soil, Water and Environment Research Insutute (SWERI) acquired muJlidate
data of SPOT panchromatic, Multispectral, and lANDSAT 1M scenes which are
considered a very valuable source of Information. Change detection Involves Ihe use
of multl·lemporal dala sets 10 discriminate areas of land cover variations a\ -;iiffe ent
dates of imaging. The aim of the study is 10 compute these variations and provide a
global view of the development in the agricultural land in the east delta up 10 1997
usin9 the existing scenes archive. The study used Maximum Likelihood dasslfication
tecnnlque to deted and mor'li1or the vartatlons of land cover.