Hybrid maps: Updating mexico's forest cartography using landsat tm imagery and land use information

Geocarto International

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 17-23

  Sorani, Valentino ^a   Alvarez, Román ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FOREST; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MAPPING; FOREST RESOURCES; LAND USE; LAND USE MAPPING; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LANDSAT TM; MAPPING; MAPPING TECHNIQUE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION; VEGETATION COVER;

MEXICO;

EID: 0030403851     PISSN: 10106049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10106049609354557     Document Type: Article

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