Multidate adaptive unmixing and its application to analysis of ecosystem transitions along a climatic gradient

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-20

  Shoshany, Maxim ^a,c   Svoray, Tal ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; LITHOLOGY; VEGETATION;

ARID CLIMATES; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL VARIATION; VEGETATION COVER;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 0042676372     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(01)00346-7     Document Type: Article

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