The international geosphere biosphere programme data and information system global land cover data set (DIScover)

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 41, Issue 4-10, 1997, Pages 681-689

  Loveland, T R ^a   Belward, A S ^b  

^a EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; RADIOMETERS;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); GLOBAL CLASSIFICATIONS; VEGETATION INDEX COMPOSITES;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031200196     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(98)00050-2     Document Type: Article

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