Herbaceous biomass estimation from SPOT 5 imagery in semiarid rangelands of Idaho

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 195-209

  Chen, Fang ^a   Weber, Keith ^a   Gokhale, Bhushan ^a  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CORRELATION; HERB; RANGELAND; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEMIARID REGION; SPOT; VEGETATION INDEX; WATER CONTENT;

IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79958106038     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.48.2.195     Document Type: Article

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