Vegetation mapping for change detection on an arid-zone river

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 109, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 255-274

  Nagler, Pamela ^a   Glenn, Edward P ^a   Hursh, Kim ^a   Curtis, Charles ^b   Huete, Alfredo ^b  

^a The Engineering Institute Farmington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado River; MODIS; Pluchea sericea; Populus fremontii; Remote sensing; Riparian; Salix gooddingii; Tamarix ramosissima

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ARID REGIONS; HARDWOODS; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS;

CHANGE DETECTION; PLUCHEA SERICEA; RIPARIAN; SALIX GOODDINGII; TAMARIX RAMOSISSIMA;

VEGETATION;

RIVER WATER;

MODIS; NDVI; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ARTICLE; DESERT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; PLANT HEIGHT; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TREE; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WILDLIFE;

DESERT CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLANTS; RIVERS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS;

MAPPING; PHOTOGRAPHY; POPULUS FREMONTII; RIVERS; SALIX; TAMARIX; TREES;

COLORADO RIVER [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

PLUCHEA SERICEA; POPULUS; POPULUS FREMONTII; PROSOPIS; SALIX; SALIX GOODDINGII; TAMARIX RAMOSISSIMA; TYPHA;

EID: 23744515056     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-005-6285-y     Document Type: Article

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