Assessing land cover change in hydro-climatic data network watersheds using NALC imagery

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 322-346

  Gordon, Wendy S ^a,c   Crews Meyer, K A ^a   Famiglietti, J S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STREAMFLOW; WATERSHED;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 15744372014     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.41.4.322     Document Type: Article

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