Mapping detailed biotic communities in the Upper San Pedro Valley of southeastern Arizona using landsat 7 ETM + data and supervised spectral angle classifier

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 709-718

  Sohn, Youngsinn ^a   Qi, Jiaguo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA ACQUISITION; ECOLOGY; SOILS; VEGETATION;

LANDSAT TM DATA; MESQUITE SCRUB; SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENT; SPECTRAL ANGLE CLASSIFIER;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SEMIARID REGION; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PROSOPIS;

EID: 31444441048     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.71.6.709     Document Type: Review

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