Development of a global land cover characteristics database and IGBP DISCover from 1 km AVHRR data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 21, Issue 6-7, 2000, Pages 1303-1330

  Loveland, T R ^a   Reed, B C ^b   Ohlen, D O ^b   Brown, J F ^b   Zhu, Z ^b   Yang, L ^c   Merchant, J W ^c  

^a EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; DATABASE; IGBP; LAND COVER;

EID: 0034655807     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311600210191     Document Type: Article

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