A combined approach for estimating vegetation cover in urban/suburban environments from remotely sensed data

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1299-1309

  Yunhao, Chen ^a   Peijun, Shi ^a   Xiaobing, Li ^a   Jin, Chen ^a   Jing, Li ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Land use classification; Remote sensing; Urban spread; Vegetation cover

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; URBAN PLANNING;

FRACTIONAL VEGETATION COVER; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN SPREAD;

VEGETATION;

ESTIMATION; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION;

LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 33747353349     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2005.11.011     Document Type: Article

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