The effect of spatial resolution on the ability to monitor the status of agricultural lands

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 210-220

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

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAPS; MONITORING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); SATELLITES; SPECTROMETERS;

AGRICULTURAL LANDS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETER; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SPATIAL RESOLUTION EFFECT; THEMATIC MAPPER IMAGERY;

REMOTE SENSING;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; COARSE RESOLUTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT TM; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EGYPT, WESTERN DERSET;

EID: 0031204362     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(97)00003-5     Document Type: Article

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