Calibrating long-term AVHRR-derived NDVI imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-12

  Roderick, Michael ^a   Smith, Richard ^b   Lodwick, Graham ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Remote Sensing Applications Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; POSTLAUNCH CALIBRATION; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION; VEGETATION;

CALCULATIONS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MONITORING; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES; SENSORS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

RADIOMETRY;

AVHRR; NDVI; POSTLAUNCH CALIBRATION; RADIOMETER; SENSOR CALIBRATION; VEGETATION;

AUSTRALIA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0030267412     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-4257(96)00035-1     Document Type: Article

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