Remote sensing of upland vegetation: The potential of high spatial resolution satellite sensors

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 359-369

  Mehner, Henny ^a   Cutler, Mark ^b   Fairbairn, David ^a   Thompson, Gillian ^c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c Northumberland Natl Park Authority   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Habitat monitoring; High spatial resolution satellite imagery; Northumberland; Remote sensing; Supervised classification; UK; Upland vegetation; Vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UPLAND REGION; VEGETATION MAPPING; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; MONITORING; SATELLITE SENSOR;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHUMBERLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 3142689724     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822X.2004.00096.x     Document Type: Article

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