Using police seizure data and hyperspectral imagery to estimate the size of an outdoor cannabis industry

Police Practice and Research

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 424-434

  Kalacska, Margaret ^a   Bouchard, Martin ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

cannabis; cannabis cultivation; drug law enforcement; estimation methods; risks of detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859364237     PISSN: 15614263     EISSN: 1477271X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15614263.2010.536722     Document Type: Article

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