Status and distribution of mangrove forests of the world using earth observation satellite data

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 154-159

  Giri, C ^a   Ochieng, E ^b   Tieszen, L L ^c   Zhu, Z ^c   Singh, A ^d   Loveland, T ^c   Masek, J ^e   Duke, N ^f  

^a EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

^b United Nations Environment Programme   (Kenya)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d United Nations Environment Programme   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Global distributions; Image processing; Landsat; Mangrove; Mapping; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; FOREST; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT; MANGROVE; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 78650071672     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00584.x     Document Type: Article

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