Arctic ecological classifications derived from vegetation community and satellite spectral data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3948-3971

  Atkinson, David M ^a   Treitz, Paul ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Clusteranalysis; Correspondence analysis; IKONOS; Remote sensing; Tundra vegetation; Vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; IKONOS; TUNDRA VEGETATION; VEGETATION MAPPING;

CHLOROPHYLL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84872296328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4123948     Document Type: Article

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