Extraction of smooth cordgrass (spartina alterniflora) biomass and leaf area index parameters from high resolution imagery

Geocarto International

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 25-34

  Jensen, John R ^a   Coombs, Cassandra ^b   Porter, Dwayne ^c   Jones, Ben ^c   Schill, Steve ^c   White, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DATA ACQUISITION; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; IN SITU TEST; LEAF AREA INDEX; MAPPING METHOD;

SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 0032467459     PISSN: 10106049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10106049809354661     Document Type: Article

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