The use of Landsat data for investigating the long-term trends in wetland change at Long Point, Ontario

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 240-254

  Leahy, Michael G ^a   Jollineau, Marilyne Y ^b   Howarth, Philip J ^a   Gillespie, Adina R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAKES; PRODUCTIVITY; WATER;

GREAT LAKE BASINS; VEGETATION COMPOSITION; WATER LEVEL CHANGES;

WETLANDS;

EID: 30644463920     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m05-012     Document Type: Article

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