Mapping land surface emissivity from NDVI: Application to European, African, and South American areas

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 167-184

  Valor, Enric ^a   Caselles, Vicente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VALENCIA;

ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SATELLITES; SENSORS; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES;

LAND SURFACE EMISSIVITY; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX;

REMOTE SENSING;

LAND SURFACE; MAPPING; NDVI; SURFACE EMISSIVITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AFRICA; EUROPE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0030222694     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-4257(96)00039-9     Document Type: Article

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