A landscape approach for detecting and evaluating change in a semi-arid environment

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 179-195

  Kepner, William G ^a   Watts, Christopher J ^b   Edmonds, Curtis M ^a   Maingi, John K ^c   Marsh, Stuart E ^c   Luna, Gonzalo ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b Instituto del Medio Ambiente y el Desarrollo Sustentable del Estado de Sonora   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; Change detection; Landscape characterization; Regional vulnerability; Remote sensing; San Pedro River

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CHANGE DETECTION; LANDSCAPE CHARACTERIZATION; REGION VULNERABILITY; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; WATER BALANCE;

ARID REGIONS; DEGRADATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; EROSION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; VEGETATION; WATERSHEDS;

LANDFORMS;

INDICATOR; WATER;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SEMIARID REGION; VEGETATION COVER;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EROSION; FOREST; GRASS; HUMIDITY; LANDSCAPING; PHOTOGRAPHY; VEGETATION; WIND;

EID: 0034284796     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006427909616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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