Title :
Global vegetation - Assessing Landsat 7/ETM+ coverage of tropical rainforest and global agricultural and forest extents
Author :
Arvidson, Terry ; Gasch, John ; Goward, Samuel N.
Author_Institution :
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Abstract :
This paper presents the state of the 10-month old Landsat 7 archive of high resolution, multi-spectral imagery of global vegetation, including global agricultural extent, forests, and tropical rainforests
Keywords :
agriculture; forestry; geophysical techniques; remote sensing; vegetation mapping; ETM+ coverage; Landsat 7; agriculture; forest; forestry; geophysical measurement technique; global extent; global vegetation; infrared; multispectral imagery; remote sensing; spatial distribution; tropical rainforest; vegetation mapping; visible; Birth disorders; Crops; Humans; Layout; Monitoring; Production; Remote sensing; Satellites; US Department of Agriculture; Vegetation mapping;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6359-0
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2000.860530
