Field validation of 1930s aerial photography: What are we missing?

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 844-853

  Browning, D M ^a   Archer, S R ^a   Byrne, A T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aboveground woody biomass; Detection limits; Error assessment; Historic aerial photography; Land cover; Panchromatic; Prosopis velutina; Retrospective ground truth; Retrospective mapping; Santa Rita experimental range; Sonoran Desert; Velvet mesquite

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DETECTION METHOD; DIGITIZATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FIELD METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; SHRUB; STAND STRUCTURE; VEGETATION COVER;

NORTH AMERICA; SONORAN DESERT;

ISOCOMA TENUISECTA; PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS VELUTINA;

EID: 67349132384     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: 1095922X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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