Land use - Land cover conversion, regeneration and degradation in the high elevation Bolivian Andes

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 607-623

  Brandt, Jodi S ^a,b   Townsend, Philip A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^b Dpto de Estructuras y Ciencias de Los Materiales   (Bolivia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Desertification; Remote sensing; South America; Spectral mixture analysis (SMA)

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; LAND COVER; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; MAPPING; MOUNTAIN; REGENERATION; REMOTE SENSING; TOPOGRAPHY;

ALTIPLANO; BOLIVIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33746871474     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-005-4120-z     Document Type: Article

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