Vegetation cover and land use of a protected coastal area and its surroundings, southeast Brazil

We applied remote sensing techniques on a TM Landsat 5 image (1:50,000) to map land use and vegetation cover of the Restinga de Jurubatiba National Park and surroundings. The thematic map generated from the digital classification of the image allowed us to spatially characterize and quantify the dif...

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Main Authors: Elisa Araujo Penna Caris, Bruno Coutinho Kurtz, Carla Bernadete Madureira Cruz, Fabio Rubio Scarano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro
Series:Rodriguésia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2175-78602013000400006&lng=en&tlng=en