Acquisition of earth science remote sensing observations from commercial sources: Lessons learned from the Space Imaging IKONOS example

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 88, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 209-219

  Goward, Samuel N ^a   Townshend, John R G ^a   Zanoni, Vicki ^b   Policelli, Fritz ^b   Stanley, Tom ^b   Ryan, Robert ^b   Holekamp, Kara ^b   Underwood, Lauren ^b   Pagnutti, Mary ^b   Fletcher, Rose ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b STENNIS SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS;

SPATIOTEMPORAL DOMAIN;

EARTH SCIENCES;

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; EARTH SCIENCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; PRIVATE SECTOR; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 10744220494     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2003.06.007     Document Type: Article

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