Assessment of pasture production in the Italian Alps using spectrometric and remote sensing information

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 118, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 267-272

  Boschetti, Mirco ^a,b   Bocchi, Stefano ^b   Brivio, Pietro Alessandro ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpine environment; Pasture production; Satellite imagery; Spectroradiometer; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL MODEL; PASTURE; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TYPOLOGY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; VEGETATION INDEX;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33751175648     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2006.05.024     Document Type: Article

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