Global vegetation monitoring: Toward a sustainable technobiosphere

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 111-116

  Turner, David P ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SATELLITE DATA; SUSTAINABILITY; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 79955376917     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/090171     Document Type: Review

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