Assessment of juniper encroachment with the use of satellite imagery and geospatial data

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 412-418

  Sankey, Temuulen Tsagaan ^a   Germino, Matthew J ^b  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Grazing; Landsat Thematic Mapper; Remote sensing; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONIFEROUS TREE; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GIS; LANDSAT; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHRUBLAND;

NORTH AMERICA;

ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS OSTEOSPERMA; JUNIPERUS SCOPULORUM;

EID: 62149099961     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/07-141.1     Document Type: Article

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