Quantifying tropical dry forest succession in the Americas using CHRIS/PROBA

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 144, Issue , 2014, Pages 120-136

  Garcia Millan V E ^a   Sanchez Azofeifa A ^b   Malvarez Garcia G C ^a   Rivard, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

CHRIS PROBA; Forest succession; Hyperspectral; Multi angular observations; Tropical dry forests

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893736647     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.01.010     Document Type: Article

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