Vegetation abundance on the Barton Peninsula, Antarctica: estimation from high-resolution satellite images

Polar Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1579-1588

  Shin, Jung Il ^a   Kim, Hyun Cheol ^a   Kim, Sang Il ^a   Hong, Soon Gyu ^a  

^a Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Abundance; Antarctica; Satellite; Spectral mixture analysis; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939886107     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: 14322056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-014-1543-5     Document Type: Article

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