Developing land use/land cover parameterization for climate-land modelling in East Africa

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 4227-4244

  Torbick, N ^a   Lusch, D ^a   Qi, J ^a   Moore, N ^a   Olson, J ^a   Ge, J ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGIONAL PLANNING;

CLIMATE-LAND MODELLING; LAND USE/LAND COVER PRODUCTS; REGIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELING SYSTEM;

LAND USE;

CLIMATE MODELING; LAND COVER; LAND USE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REMOTE SENSING; SIMULATION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33750078089     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160600702426     Document Type: Article

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