Monitoring agricultural lands in Egypt with multitemporal landsat TM imagery: How many images are needed?

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 522-529

  Pax Lenney, Mary ^a   Woodcock, Curtis E ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAPPING; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; SATELLITES;

LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER (TM); MULTITEMPORAL IMAGERY;

REMOTE SENSING;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DATA SET; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT TM; MONITORING;

EGYPT, NILE DELTA; EGYPT, WESTERN DESERT;

EID: 0030615370     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(96)00124-1     Document Type: Article

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