Towards an automated estimation of vegetation cover fractions on multiple scales: Examples of eastern and southern Africa

Proceedings, 33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, ISRSE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 623-626

  Gessner, U ^a   Klein, D ^a   Conrad, C ^a   Schmidt, M ^a,b   Dech, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Africa; Degradation; Fractional vegetation cover; Regression trees; Semi arid environments

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS; FRACTIONAL VEGETATION COVER; HERBACEOUS VEGETATION; REGRESSION TREES; SEMI-ARID ECOSYSTEMS; SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENTS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84879928626     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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