Improving the discrimination of vegetation and landform patterns in sandy rangelands: A synergistic approach

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2579-2605

  Blanco, P D ^a   Metternicht, G I ^b   del Valle, H F ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGÓNICO   (Argentina)

^b United Nations Environment Programme   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFRARED DEVICES; LANDFORMS; MAPPING; MAPS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; RADAR REFLECTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

ADVANCED SPACEBORNE THERMAL EMISSION AND REFLECTION RADIOMETER; ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; FUZZY MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION; OBJECT ORIENTED APPROACH; OBJECT ORIENTED CLASSIFICATION; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED; VISIBLE NEAR-INFRARED;

MICROWAVE SENSORS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ASTER; CARTOGRAPHY; DATA SET; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDFORM; RADARSAT; RANGELAND; SATELLITE SENSOR; SYNERGISM; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ARGENTINA; CHUBUT; PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA; VALDES PENINSULA;

EID: 70449382762     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160802552785     Document Type: Article

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