Spatial assessment of two widely used land-cover datasets over the continental U.S

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2396-2404

  Chen, Pei Yu ^a   Luzio, Mauro Di ^a   Arnold, Jeff G ^b,c  

^a BLACKLAND RESEARCH AND EXTENSION CENTER   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN PLAINS AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Global Land Cover Characteristics (GLCC); National Land Cover Data (NLCD)

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL LAND-COVER CHARACTERISTICS (GLCC); NATIONAL LAND-COVER DATA (NLCD);

CROPS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; VEGETATION;

DATA ACQUISITION;

DATA; FARM CROPS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; PLANTS;

EID: 27744505976     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.854308     Document Type: Article

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