Decadal changes in a pacific estuary: A multi-source remote sensing approach for historical ecology

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 347-370

  Byrd, Kristin B ^a   Kelly, N Maggi ^a   Van Dyke, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DECADAL VARIATION; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; REMOTE SENSING; SALTMARSH; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; ELKHORN SLOUGH; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

SALICORNIA; SALIX LASIOLEPIS;

EID: 15744399997     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.41.4.347     Document Type: Article

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