Objective indicators of pasture degradation from spectral mixture analysis of landsat imagery

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Davidson, Eric A ^a   Asner, Gregory P ^b   Stone, Thomas A ^a,c   Neill, Christopher ^a,c   Figueiredo, Ricardo O ^d  

^a WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^d EMBRAPA AMAZÔNIA ORIENTAL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; BIODEGRADATION; CATTLE; GRAZING; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; LANDSAT; PASTURE; POLICY MAKING; REGROWTH; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STOCKING DENSITY;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

BOS; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS;

EID: 67649535930     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JG000622     Document Type: Article

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