Geographic layers as landscape drivers for the Marco Polo Argali habitat in the Southeastern Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2094-2108

  Salas, Eric Ariel L ^a   Valdez, Raul ^a   Boykin, Kenneth G ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS analysis; Landsat; Pasture; Remote sensing; Tajik Pamirs; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952803296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi4042094     Document Type: Article

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