This study is based on the analysis of a 1-year daily data set (from January 1st to December 31st, 2000) from the VEGETATION sensor onboard the SPOT-4 satellite (1-km spatial resolution).
Slender damselflies are also emerging from the vegetation, the thin, pale blue dashes flickering over the flowers.
This causes problems because bread can divert waterfowl from the vegetation and other foods they naturally eat, he said.
Botanizing is interrupted by simple but delicious meals enhanced by treats extracted from the vegetation around us (avocados, plantains, pineapples).
The Square George Caïn, behind the Musée Carnavalet, is a delightful shaded corner, with a statue by Maillol peeping from the vegetation in its central pool.
The district takes its name from the vegetation of the area, which is a mixture of heathlands and forest plantations characteristic of the larger region known as Breckland.
Standing behind it, higher, there's a great wooded rock, its two jagged molar stumps emerging from the vegetation covering its base.
Soil erosion resulting from the vegetation degradation suffered by Spain for at least the past 3,000 years has created extensive badlands, reduced soil cover, downstream alluviation, and, more recently, silting of dams and irrigation works.
Later, Michael Sartori, the mapping specialist, would use software to strip away all the reflections from the vegetation, leaving only the ground points; these would be processed to create a shaded, topographical map of the terrain and any ruins or structures that might be found on it.
Or on that night when he visited a heronry among the sand dunes of Sandy Neck, Barnstable: "The windless air was stagnant and fetid; swarms of stinging midges, deerflies, and mosquitoes attacked at will; and vicious wood-ticks, hanging from the vegetation, reached for me with their clinging claws, and crawled upon my limbs, seeking an opening to bury their heads in my flesh".
Like the other bays studied, the limits of the bay are clearly detectable from the vegetation.
