Unmixing AVHRR Imagery to Assess Clearcuts and Forest Regrowth in Oregon

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 788-795

  Hlavka, Christine A ^a   Spanner, Michael A ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER; FOREST CLEARCUTS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; THERMAL BANDS; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES TECHNIQUE;

ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0029309060     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.387594     Document Type: Article

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