Fifty years of earth-observation satellites

American Scientist

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 390-398

  Tatem, Andrew J ^a,b   Goetz, Scott J ^c,d   Hay, Simon I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group   (Kenya)

^c WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MONITORING SYSTEM; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 51649106777     PISSN: 00030996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1511/2008.74.390     Document Type: Article

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