Remote sensing of biological soil crust under simulated climate change manipulations in the Mojave Desert

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 317-328

  Ustin, Susan L ^a   Valko, Phillip G ^a   Kefauver, Shawn C ^a   Santos, Maria J ^a   Zimpfer, Jeff F ^b   Smith, Stanley D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

AVIRIS; Biological soil crust; Climate change; Field spectral measurements; Hyperspectral identification; Mojave Global Change Facility; Multivariate field experiment

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERICS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; IRRIGATION; LABORATORIES; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; NITROGEN; REMOTE SENSING; SOILS;

AVIRIS; BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUST; FIELD SPECTRAL MEASUREMENTS; HYPERSPECTRAL IDENTIFICATION; MOJAVE GLOBAL CHANGE FACILITY; MULTIVARIATE FIELD EXPERIMENT;

SOIL SURVEYS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GLOBAL CHANGE; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGERY; IRRIGATION; LAND USE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL CRUST; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

MOJAVE DESERT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BRYOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 58149123396     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.09.013     Document Type: Article

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