The forest types and ages cleared for land development in Puerto Rico

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 356-382

  Kennaway, Todd ^a   Helmer, E H ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST COVER; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; MAPPING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; PUERTO RICO;

ANANAS COMOSUS; SACCHARUM;

EID: 35649004936     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.44.4.356     Document Type: Article

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