Remote sensing and GIS at farm property level: Demography and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1311-1320

  McCracken, Stephen D ^c   Brondizio, Eduardo S ^c   Nelson, Donald ^a   Moran, Emilio F ^c   Siqueira, Andrea D ^c   Rodriguez Pedraza, Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; FARMING SYSTEM; GIS; REMOTE SENSING;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0032741725     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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