Delineation of phenoregions in geographically diverse regions using k-means++ clustering: A case study in the Upper Colorado River Basin

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 163-181

  Zhang, Yuan ^a   Hepner, George ^a   Dennison, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MAP; MODELING; PHENOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

COLORADO RIVER [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84863357023     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.49.2.163     Document Type: Article

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