Land cover classification with AVHRR multichannel composites in northernenvironments

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 36-51

  Cihlar, Josef ^a   Ly, Hung ^b   Xiao, Qinghan ^a  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b Intera Info Technology Limited   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; CLOUDS; DISTORTION (WAVES); ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FORESTRY; LAND FILL; MAPPING; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER; CLUSTERING ALGORITHM; LAND COVER; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; RADIOMETRIC DISTORTION;

REMOTE SENSING;

ACCURACY; AVHRR; COMPOSITE MAP; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; NDVI; NOAA-11; PIXEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL CHANNEL;

EID: 0030269441     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-4257(95)00210-3     Document Type: Article

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