Mapping fire-induced vegetation mortality using landsat thematic mapper data: A comparison of linear transformation techniques

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 132-142

  Patterson, Mark W ^a   Yool, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRES; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PLANTS (BOTANY); STATISTICAL METHODS;

KAUTH-THOMAS (KT) TRANSFORMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS (PC) TRANSFORMS; THEMATIC MAPPER (TM);

REMOTE SENSING;

LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION COVER; WILDFIRE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032132325     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(98)00018-2     Document Type: Article

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