Potential and limitations of information extraction on the terrestrial biosphere from satellite remote sensing

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 201-214

  Verstraete, Michel M ^a   Pinty, Bernard ^a,c   Myneni, Ranga B ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SATELLITES;

INFORMATION EXTRACTION;

REMOTE SENSING;

BIOSPHERE; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; RADIATION; SATELLITE OBSERVATION; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0030274111     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(96)00069-7     Document Type: Article

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