The IGBP-DIS global 1-km land-cover data set DISCover: A project overview

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1013-1020

  Belward, Alan S ^a   Estes, John E ^b   Kline, Karen D ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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