Biophysical and spectral characteristics of cool- and warm-season grasslands under three land management practices in Eastern Kansas

Natural Resources Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 321-331

  Guo, Xulin ^a   Price, Kevin P ^a,c   Stiles, James M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b University of Kansas   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Landsat; Tallgrass prairie; Thematic Mapper (TM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 25844463079     PISSN: 15207439     EISSN: 15738981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011513527965     Document Type: Article

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