Wal-mart from space: A new source for land cover change validation

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 913-919

  Potere, David ^a   Feierabend, Neal ^b   Strahler, Alan H ^c   Bright, Eddie A ^d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOMETERS; VEGETATION;

BUILDING FOOTPRINT; DISTURBANCE SIGNALS; ECOSYSTEM DISTURBANCE; ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; FOREST DISTURBANCES; LAND-COVER CHANGE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCES;

REMOTE SENSING;

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION INDEX;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 47549089082     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.74.7.913     Document Type: Article

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