Characterizing global land cover type and seasonal land cover dynamics at moderate spatial resolution with MODIS data

Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages 709-724

  Friedl, Mark ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyang ^a   Strahler, Alan ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84979917512     PISSN: 15673200     EISSN: 22151842     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6749-7_31     Document Type: Chapter

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