Suitability of the DCS460c colour digital camera for quantitative remote sensing analysis of vegetation

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 105-118

  Dean, Christopher ^a   Warner, Timothy A ^a   McGraw, James B ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial imagery; Colour interpolation; Colour mosaic CCDs; Digital camera; Forest; Multispectral; Radiometric corrections

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; RADIOMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

COLOUR DIGITAL CAMERA; COLOUR INTERPOLATION; NEAREST NEIGHBOR INTERPOLATION METHOD; RADIOMETRIC CORRECTIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EID: 0033929874     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-2716(00)00011-3     Document Type: Article

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