Impacts of upscaling techniques on land cover representation in nebraska, u.s.a.

Geocarto International

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-39

  Yang, Wenli ^a   Merchant, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; UPSCALING;

USA, NEBRASKA;

EID: 0030725441     PISSN: 10106049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10106049709354571     Document Type: Article

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