Designing optimal spectral indexes for remote sensing applications

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1254-1265

  Verstraete, Michel M ^a   Pinty, Bernard ^a,b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT MONITORING INDEX; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; OPTIMAL SPECTRAL INDEX;

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030244221     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.536541     Document Type: Article

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