The effect of microphytes on the spectral reflectance of vegetation in semiarid regions

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 88-96

  Karnieli, Arnon ^a   Shachak, Moshe ^a   Tsoar, Haim ^a   Zaady, Eli ^a   Kaufman, Yoram ^b   Danin, Avinoam ^c   Porter, Warren ^d  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BRYOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE SENSORS; LAND USE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REFLECTOMETERS; ROCKS; SOILS;

DESERTIFICATION; MICROPHYTES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI); SATELLITE SENSOR IMAGES; SEMIARID REGIONS; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE CURVES; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

REMOTE SENSING;

ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY; MICROPHYTE; NDVI; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVITY; SEMIARID REGION; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 0030201286     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-4257(95)00209-X     Document Type: Article

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