| spectral characterization of mangrove leaves in the brazilian amazonian coast: turiaçu bay, maranhão state. | mangrove communities are tropical systems which have fewer species than tropical forests, especially in latin america and display a single architecture, usually lacking the various strata commonly found in other forest ecosystems. the identification of mangrove communities by orbital data is not a difficult task but the most interesting challenge is to identify themselves by the dominant species. the first step toward that floristic identification is the spectral characterization of detached lea ... | 2007 | 18066436 |