AIRSAR studies of woody shrub density in semiarid rangeland: Jornada del Muerto, New Mexico

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-40

  Musick, H Brad ^a,c   Schaber, Gerald S ^b   Breed, Carol S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLARIMETERS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

WOODY SHRUB;

REMOTE SENSING;

AIRBORNE SENSING; RANGELAND; SEMIARID REGION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION COVER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032184597     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(98)00033-9     Document Type: Article

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