Methodologies for mapping plant functional types

Advances in Land Remote Sensing: System, Modeling, Inversion and Application

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 369-393

  Sun, Wanxiao ^a   Liang, Shunlin ^b  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA FUSION; MAPPING;

CARBON CYCLES; ECOSYSTEM CHANGES; GLOBAL CLIMATES; MULTISOURCE DATA; PLANT FUNCTIONAL TYPE; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; RESEARCH NEEDS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84900216512     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6450-0_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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