Advanced vegetation indices optimized for up-coming sensors: design, performance, and applications

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2489-2505

  Gobron, Nadine ^a   Pinty, Bernard ^a   Verstraete, Michel M ^a   Widlowski, Jean Luc ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SENSORS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETERS; VEGETATION;

FRACTION OF ADSORBED PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; GLOBAL IMAGERS; MEDIUM RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETER; VEGETATION INDEX;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0034314585     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.885197     Document Type: Article

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