High spatial resolution decade-time scale land cover change at multiple locations in the Beringian Arctic (19482000s)

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Lin, D H ^a   Johnson, D R ^a   Andresen, C ^a   Tweedie, C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic change; arctic tundra; Beringia; International Polar Year; land cover change (LCC); remote sensing; vegetation change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860866589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/2/025502     Document Type: Review

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