Use of landsat and SRTM data to detect broad-scale biodiversity patterns in Northwestern Amazonia

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2401-2418

  Higgins, Mark A ^a   Asner, Gregory P ^a   Perez, Eneas ^b   Elespuru, Nydia ^b   Tuomisto, Hanna ^c   Ruokolainen, Kalle ^c   Alonso, Alfonso ^d  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA AMAZONÍA PERUANA   (Peru)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Floristic composition; Geology; Landsat; NDVI; Pteridophytes; Soils; Srtm; Vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

AMAZONIA; LANDSAT; NDVI; PTERIDOPHYTES; SRTM; VEGETATION MAPPING;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; SOILS; VEGETATION;

TRACKING RADAR;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; PLANTS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL;

EID: 84868150141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4082401     Document Type: Article

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