An integration of remote sensing and GIS to examine the responses of shrub thicket distributions to shoreline changes on Virginia Barrier Islands

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 299-307

  Shao, Guofan ^a   Young, Donald R ^b   Porter, John H ^a   Hayden, Bruce P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Landscape dynamics; Modelling; Spatial change; Virginia Coast Reserve

Indexed keywords

GIS; REMOTE SENSING; SHORELINE CHANGE; SHRUB; VEGETATION CHANGE;

USA, VIRGINIA, HOG ISLAND;

EID: 0031911955     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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