Evaluation of the potential of Landsat ETM+ for forest density mapping in Zagros forests of Iran

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 2529-2531

  Darvishsefat, Ali A ^a   Saroei, Saeed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b Ministry of Agriculture   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SATELLITES;

FOREST DENSITY;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0242657925     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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