Landsat-based land cover mapping in the lower Yuna River watershed in the Dominican Republic

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 3011-3025

  Laba, M ^a,b   Smith, S D ^b   Degloria, S D ^a  

^a Crop and Atmospheric Sciences ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; PARKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RIVERS; TROPICS; WATERSHEDS;

LAND COVER MAPPING; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER;

REMOTE SENSING;

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; LAND COVER; LANDCOVER; LANDSAT; LANDSAT MSS; LANDSAT TM; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING;

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, YUNA RIVER;

EID: 0031225218     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311697217170     Document Type: Article

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