A comparison of the IGBP DISCover and university of maryland 1 km global land cover products

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 21, Issue 6-7, 2000, Pages 1365-1373

  Hansen, M C ^a   Reed, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b HUGHES STX CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IGBP; LAND COVER; METHODOLOGY;

EID: 0034656178     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311600210218     Document Type: Article

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