Monitoring change in the spatial heterogeneity of vegetation cover in an African savanna

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2255-2269

  Murwira, Amon ^a   Skidmore, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MONITORING; VEGETATION;

REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY;

REMOTE SENSING;

LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NDVI; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SAVANNA; VEGETATION COVER;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 33747144435     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160500396683     Document Type: Article

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