Assessing the short-term impacts of changing grazing regime at the landscape scale with remote sensing

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 5797-5813

  Bradley, Bethany A ^a   O'Sullivan, Mary Tess ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Lava Lake Institute for Science and Conservation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ECOSYSTEMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LAKES; LAND USE;

ECOLOGICAL RECOVERIES; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM RECEIVERS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LIVESTOCK GRAZING; LOCAL MONITORING; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

REMOTE SENSING;

ECOREGION; GPS; GRAZING; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LANDSCAPE; LIVESTOCK; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNGULATE;

IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

OVIS ARIES; UNGULATA;

EID: 80053125905     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.507680     Document Type: Article

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