Evaluation of Compositing Algorithms for AVHRR Data Over Land

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 427-437

  Cihlar, J ^a   Manak, D ^b  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER (AVHRR); NEAR-NADIR GEOMETRY; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NVDI); SINGLE-CHANNEL COMPOSITE IMAGES;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0028403698     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.295057     Document Type: Article

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