Quantifying vegetation change in semiarid environments: Precision and accuracy of spectral mixture analysis and the normalized difference vegetation index

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 87-102

  Elmore, Andrew J ^a   Mustard, John F ^a   Manning, Sara J ^b   Lobell, David B ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Inyo County Water Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOMETERS; VEGETATION;

NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI); SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS (SMA); THEMATIC MAPPING;

REMOTE SENSING;

NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SEMIARID REGION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 0033947003     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(00)00100-0     Document Type: Article

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