Surface albedos and angle-corrected NDVI from AVHRR observations of South America

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 119-132

  Hu, Baoxin ^a   Lucht, Wolfgang ^a   Strahler, Alan H ^a   Barker Schaaf, Crystal ^a   Smith, Milton ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED IMAGING; RADIOMETERS; VEGETATION;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER (AVHRR); BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (BRDF) MODEL;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALBEDO; AVHRR; LAND SURFACE; NDVI;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0033949992     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(99)00050-4     Document Type: Article

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