Landsat's role in ecological applications of remote sensing

BioScience

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 535-545

  Cohen, Warren B ^a   Goward, Samuel N ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; Landsat; Remote sensing; Spectral vegetation indices; Vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942621978     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0535:LRIEAO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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