Assessing the impact of urban land development on net primary productivity in the southeastern United States

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 401-410

  Milesi, Cristina ^a   Elvidge, Christopher D ^b   Nemani, Ramakrishna R ^a   Running, Steven W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

DMSP OLS; MODIS; Net primary productivity; Southeastern United States; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; LAND USE; POPULATION STATISTICS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

URBAN LAND DEVELOPMENT;

URBAN PLANNING;

ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LANDSAT; MODIS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBANIZATION;

(SOUTHEAST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141792278     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(03)00081-6     Document Type: Article

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