A land cover map of southern hemisphere Africa based on SPOT-4 vegetation data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1053-1074

  Cabral, Ana I R ^a   Vasconcelos, M J P ^a,b   Pereira, J M C ^b   Martins, E ^a   Bartholome E ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAPS; SATELLITES; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VEGETATION;

BOOTSRAP AGGREGATION; LAND COVER MAP; SINGLE TREE CLASSIFIER;

REMOTE SENSING;

MAPPING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPOT; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION COVER;

AFRICA;

EID: 33744824968     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160500307409     Document Type: Article

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