Recent land-use/land-cover change in the Central California Valley

Journal of Land Use Science

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 59-80

  Soulard, Christopher E ^a   Wilson, Tamara S ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

agriculture; change detection; drivers of change; land use change; satellite imagery

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918576844     PISSN: 1747423X     EISSN: 17474248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2013.841297     Document Type: Article

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