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International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 27, 2006 - Issue 14
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Scene selection and the use of NASA's global orthorectified Landsat dataset for land cover and land use change monitoring

Andrew J. Tatem TALA Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK; Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine, P.O. Box 43640, 00100 GPO Nairobi, KenyaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Anjali Nayar Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY
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Simon I. Hay TALA Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK; Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine, P.O. Box 43640, 00100 GPO Nairobi, Kenya
Pages 3073-3078 | Received 03 Nov 2005, Accepted 22 Jan 2006, Published online: 22 Feb 2007

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