Calibration adjustment of the NOAA AVHRR normalized difference vegetation index without recourse to component channel 1 and 2 data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1993, Pages 1907-1917

  Los, S O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; ERROR; NDVI; SENSOR DEGRADATION;

CALIBRATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ERROR CORRECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PLANTS (BOTANY); RADIOMETERS; SENSORS;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER (AVHRR); NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION (NOAA); NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI); SENSOR DEGRADATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0027788687     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431169308954011     Document Type: Article

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