Seasonal changes in fractal landscape surface roughness estimated from airborne laser altimetry data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 2509-2516

  Pachepsky, Y A ^a,b   Ritchie, J C ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FRACTALS; GEOPHYSICS; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION;

LASER ALTIMETRY;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALTIMETRY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION COVER;

NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032505169     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311698214596     Document Type: Article

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