Remote sensing of mountain environments

Geography Compass

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-21

  Weiss, Daniel J ^a   Walsh, Stephen J ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TERRAIN; ECOTONE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; REMOTE SENSING; TREELINE;

EID: 59849104115     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00200.x     Document Type: Article

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