Remote sensing data for regional wetland mapping in the United States: Trends and future prospects

Wetlands Ecology Conservation and Restoration

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 73-112

  Lang, Megan W ^a   McCarty, Greg W ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

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