The global land-cover characteristics database: The users' perspective

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1069-1074

  Brown, Jesslyn F ^a   Loveland, Thomas R ^a   Ohlen, Donald O ^a   Zhu, Zhi Liang ^a  

^a EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0032851988     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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