Multitemporal land-cover classification of Mexico using Landsat MSS imagery

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2501-2514

  Alvarez, R ^a   Bonifaz, R ^a   Lunetta, R S ^b   Garcia C ^a   Gomez G ^a   Castro, R ^a   Bernal, A ^a   Cabrera, A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SENSORS; MAPPING; SCANNING;

LAND-COVER;

REMOTE SENSING;

LAND COVER; LANDSAT MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

MEXICO;

EID: 0037669795     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160210153066     Document Type: Article

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