Global land cover classification by remote sensing: present capabilities and future possibilities

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 35, Issue 2-3, 1991, Pages 243-255

  Townshend, John ^a   Justice, Christopher ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Gurney, Charlotte ^a   McManus, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; GLOBAL LAND COVER; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETER;

EID: 0026296608     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-4257(91)90016-Y     Document Type: Article

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