Multiscale assessment of binary and continuous landcover variables for MODIS validation, mapping, and modeling applications

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 82-98

  Milne, Bruce T ^a   Cohen, Warren B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FRACTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTROMETERS; VEGETATION;

MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS (MODIS);

REMOTE SENSING;

DATA PROCESSING; LAND COVER; MAPPING; MODIS;

EID: 0033214033     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(99)00059-0     Document Type: Article

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