Studying long-term vegetation dynamics using digital processing of historical aerial photographs

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 164-176

  Kadmon, Ronen ^a   Harari Kremer, Ruthie ^a,b  

^a Institute of Life Sciences   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SCANNING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DIGITAL PROCESSING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE SCANNING; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION MAPS;

VEGETATION;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL RECORD; IMAGE PROCESSING; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0032826681     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(98)00109-6     Document Type: Article

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