Towards operational monitoring of terrestrial systems by moderate-resolution remote sensing

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 83, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 351-359

  Townshend, John R G ^a   Justice, Christopher O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SATELLITES; SENSORS; VEGETATION;

BIOPHYSICAL MONITORING;

REMOTE SENSING;

FUTURE PROSPECT; MODIS; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0036846973     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00082-2     Document Type: Article

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