The NASA land-cover and land-use change program research agenda and progress (2005-2011)

Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover: Principles and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 379-396

  Gutman, Garik ^a   Justice, Chris ^b   King, Lee Ann ^b  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NASA;

LAND COVER; LAND-USE CHANGE; RESEARCH AGENDA;

LAND USE;

EID: 84979896428     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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