Multispectral and texture feature application in image-object analysis of summer vegetation in eastern Tajikistan Pamirs

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

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

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arid environment; Image texture; Marco polo argali; MDI; Moment distance; Multispectral application; Object based analysis; Pamir mountains Tajikistan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957900257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8010078     Document Type: Article

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