Vegetation in deserts: I. A regional measure of abundance from multispectral images

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 1-26

  Smith, Milton O ^a   Ustin, Susan L ^b   Adams, John B ^a   Gillespie, Alan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESERT; LANDSAT TM; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; SOIL;

USA, CALIFORNIA;

ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING--IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAPHY--ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS; SATELLITES;

CALIFORNIA; DESERT VEGETATION; LANSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0025571552     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-4257(90)90074-V     Document Type: Article

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