Land-cover change in the conterminous United States from 1973 to 2000

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 733-748

  Sleeter, Benjamin M ^a   Sohl, Terry L ^b   Loveland, Thomas R ^b   Auch, Roger F ^b   Acevedo, William ^b   Drummond, Mark A ^b   Sayler, Kristi L ^b   Stehman, Stephen V ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Ecoregions; Forestry; Land cover; Land use; Landsat; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ECOREGION; FOREST COVER; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878540924     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.03.006     Document Type: Article

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