MODIS vegetative cover conversion and vegetation continuous fields

Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages 725-745

  Carroll, Mark ^a   Townshend, John ^a   Hansen, Matthew ^a   Dimiceli, Charlene ^a   Sohlberg, Robert ^a   Wurster, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 84979916923     PISSN: 15673200     EISSN: 22151842     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6749-7_32     Document Type: Chapter

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