Multitemporal, moderate-spatial-resolution remote sensing of modern agricultural production and land modification in the Brazilian Amazon

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 117-148

  Brown, J C ^a   Jepson, W E ^b   Kastens, J H ^a   Wardlow, B D ^c   Lomas, J M ^a   Price, K P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; DEFORESTATION; LAND INFORMATION SYSTEM; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VEGETATION INDEX;

BRAZIL; RONDONIA; SOUTH AMERICA; VILHENA;

EID: 34247504106     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.44.2.117     Document Type: Review

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