Seasonal Land-Cover Regions of the United States

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 339-355

  Loveland, Thomas R ^a   Merchant, James W ^b   Brown, Jesslyn F ^c   Ohlen, Donald O ^c   Reed, Bradley C ^c   Olson, Paul ^c   Hutchinson, John ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; DATABASE; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND COVER; LAND-COVER MAPPING; MAP PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING;

USA;

EID: 0029531447     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1995.tb01798.x     Document Type: Article

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