On the errors of two estimators of sub-pixel fractional cover when mixing is linear

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 163-170

  Settle, Jeff ^a   Campbell, Norm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Linear mixing; Multispectral calibration; Spectral unmixing

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

LINEAR MIXING; MULTISPECTRAL CALIBRATION; SPECTRAL UNMIXING; SUB PIXEL FRACTIONAL GROUND COVER;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0031698489     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.655326     Document Type: Article

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