Global land cover mapping from MODIS: Algorithms and early results

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 83, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 287-302

  Friedl, M A ^a   McIver, D K ^a   Hodges, J C F ^a   Zhang, X Y ^a   Muchoney, D ^b   Strahler, A H ^a   Woodcock, C E ^a   Gopal, S ^a   Schneider, A ^a   Cooper, A ^a   Baccini, A ^a   Gao, F ^a   Schaaf, C ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAPPING; RADIOMETERS; VEGETATION;

LAND COVER;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHM; DATABASE; LAND COVER; MAPPING; MODIS;

EID: 18644370258     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00078-0     Document Type: Article

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