Who launched what, when and why; trends in global land-cover observation capacity from civilian earth observation satellites

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 103, Issue , 2015, Pages 115-128

  Belward, Alan S ^a   Skøien, Jon O ^a  

^a EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Earth observing satellite; End of life; Land cover mapping; Launch; Mission cost; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAUNCHING; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EARTH OBSERVING SATELLITE; END OF LIVES; LAND COVER MAPPING; MISSION COSTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

EID: 84927804350     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.03.009     Document Type: Article

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