Toward the rapid characterization of the built environment within the wildland-urban interface: A soft classification strategy

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 179-196

  Lein, James K ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAND COVER; REMOTE SENSING; URBAN AREA; WILDFIRE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745779671     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.43.2.179     Document Type: Article

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