Integrated environmental modelling to characterise processes of land degradation and desertification for policy support

Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Processing for Land Degradation Assessment

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 45-72

  Mulligan, Mark ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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