Rangeland cover component quantification using broad (TM) and narrow-band (1.4 NM) spectrometry

Journal of Range Management

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 249-257

  Bork, Edward W ^a,b   West, Neil E ^b   Price, Kevin P ^c   Walker, John W ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e USDA ARS US Sheep Experiment Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Indicators; Long term grazing; Predictability; Sagebrush steppe

Indexed keywords

RANGELAND; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETRY; VEGETATION COVER;

ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA;

EID: 0032927072     PISSN: 0022409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4003687     Document Type: Article

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