Implementing ecosystem management: A framework for remotely sensed information at multiple scales

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 40, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 173-184

  Sexton, William T ^a   Dull, Charles W ^a   Szaro, Robert C ^a,b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b Intl Union of Forest Res Org   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ecological approach; Ecosystem management; Remote sensing; Scale

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032584026     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2046(97)00110-2     Document Type: Article

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