The status of agricultural lands in Egypt: The use of multitemporal NDVI features derived from Landsat TM

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 8-20

  Lenney, Mary Pax ^a   Woodcock, Curtis E ^a   Collins, John B ^a   Hamdi, Hassan ^b,c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Agriculture Research Center   (Egypt)

^c Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAND RECLAMATION; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

AGRICULTURAL PLANNING; MULTITEMPORAL NDVI FEATURE;

AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND STATUS; CLASSIFICATION; NDVI; TM IMAGERY;

EGYPT; NILE DELTA; WESTERN DESERT;

EID: 0029666682     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-4257(95)00152-2     Document Type: Article

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