Vegetation survey in the former brown coal mining area of eastern Germany by integrating remote sensing and ground-based methods

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 233-240

  Felinks, Birgit ^a   Pilarski, Monika ^b   Wiegleb, Gerhard ^a  

^a BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Remote Sensing Centre GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nature conservation; Post mining landscape; Remote sensing; Spatial scale; Vegetation classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000293784     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1478953     Document Type: Review

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