Global continuous fields of vegetation characteristics: A linear mixture model applied to multi-year 8 km AVHRR data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 21, Issue 6-7, 2000, Pages 1389-1414

  Defries, R S ^a   Hansen, M C ^a   Townshend, J R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 0034655795     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311600210236     Document Type: Article

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