Estimation of perennial vegetation cover distribution in the Mojave Desert using MODIS-EVI data

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 167-187

  Wallace, Cynthia S A ^a   Webb, Robert H ^a   Thomas, Kathryn A ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION INDEX;

MOJAVE DESERT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44649103262     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.45.2.167     Document Type: Article

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