Multitemporal analysis of degraded forests in the southern Brazilian Amazon

Earth Interactions

Volumn 9, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 1-25

  Souza Jr , Carlos M ^a,b   Roberts, Dar A ^b   Monteiro, André L ^a  

^a Inst do Homem Meio Ambiente Amazona   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazilian Amazon; Forest degradation; Spectral mixture analysis

Indexed keywords

MIXTURES; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

BRAZILIAN AMAZON; FOREST DEGRADATION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MULTI-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; NON-PHOTOSYNTHETIC VEGETATION; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; OPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGES; SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS;

REFORESTATION;

EID: 77955955445     PISSN: 10873562     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/EI132.1     Document Type: Article

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