Identifying scale-location specific control on vegetation distribution in mountain-hill region

Journal of Mountain Science

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 541-552

  Qiu, Bing wen ^a   Zeng, Can ying ^a   Tang, Zheng hong ^b   Li, Wei jiao ^a   Hirsh, Aaron ^c  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Characteristic scale; Continuous wavelet transform; Mountain hill region; NDVI; Scale location specific

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880821693     PISSN: 16726316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11629-013-2733-2     Document Type: Article

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