Estimating conifer forest cover with thematic mapper data using reflectance model inversions and two spectral indices in a site with variable background characteristics

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 105-121

  Gemmell, Fraser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST REFLECTANCE MODEL; THEMATIC MAPPING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VEGETATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; ESTIMATION METHOD; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; VEGETATION COVER;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 0032773466     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(99)00004-8     Document Type: Article

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