Parcel-based classification of agricultural crops via multitemporal Landsat imagery for monitoring habitat availability of western burrowing owls in the Imperial Valley agro-ecosystem

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 750-762

  Falkowski, Michael J ^a   Manning, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CROPS; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM; AGRO ECOSYSTEMS; BURROWING OWLS; CALIFORNIA; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CROP TYPE CLASSIFICATION; DATA LAYER; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; LANDSAT IMAGERY; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; MULTI-TEMPORAL; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SPACE USE; SPATIAL EXTENT; STUDY AREAS; WILDLIFE POPULATIONS; WILDLIFE SPECIES;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES;

CROPS;

EID: 80052465751     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m11-011     Document Type: Article

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