Spectral characteristics of cyanobacteria soil crust in semiarid environments

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-75

  Karnieli, Arnon ^a   Kidron, Giora J ^a   Glaesser, Cornelia ^b   Ben Dor, Eyal ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIA SOIL CRUST; MICROPHYTIC COMMUNITY; PHYCOBILIN PIGMENTS; SEMIARID ENVIRONMENTS;

BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAPPING; MICROORGANISMS; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SOILS;

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CYANOBACTERIUM; MINERALOGY; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL CRUST; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032771875     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(98)00110-2     Document Type: Article

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