Spectrometry of pasture condition and biogeochemistry in the Central Amazon

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 2769-2772

  Asner, Gregory P ^a   Townsend, Alan R ^b   Bustamante, Mercedes M C ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; GEOCHEMISTRY; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); REGIONAL PLANNING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOTIC FACTORS; CATTLE PASTURE; CENTRAL AMAZON; PHOTON TRANSPORT INVERSE MODELING; SPACEBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL SENSORS; BIOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; CLIMATIC FACTORS; HYPERSPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; HYPERSPECTRAL SENSORS; INVERSE MODELING; PASTURE CONDITIONS; REGIONAL ANALYSIS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

SPECTROMETRY; AGRICULTURE;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; LAND USE; PASTURE; REMOTE SENSING;

AMAZON BASIN; BRAZIL;

BOS;

EID: 0033387177     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900546     Document Type: Article

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