Land cover characterization of Temperate East Asia using multi-temporal VEGETATION sensor data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 477-489

  Boles, Stephen H ^a   Xiao, Xiangming ^a   Liu, Jiyuan ^b   Zhang, Qingyuan ^a   Munkhtuya, Sharav ^c   Chen, Siqing ^b   Ojima, Dennis ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c Ministry of Nature and Environment   (Mongolia)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Land cover; Temperate East Asia; VEGETATION sensor data

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; LAND FILL; MAPS; SENSORS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATERS; VEGETATION;

EXTENSIVE DESERTS; GRASSLANDS; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPES;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPOT; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 2342630687     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.01.016     Document Type: Article

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