Land change in the Greater Antilles between 2001 and 2010

Land

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 81-107

  Álvarez Berríos, Nora L ^a   Redo, Daniel J ^a   Aide, T Mitchell ^a   Clark, Matthew L ^b   Grau, Ricardo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cuba; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Jamaica; MODIS; Puerto Rico; Random forests; SIDS; Sugarcane

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897509576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2073445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/land2020081     Document Type: Article

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