Designing a spectral index to estimate vegetation water content from remote sensing data: Part 1: Theoretical approach

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 82, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 188-197

  Ceccato, Pietro ^a,c   Flasse, Stéphane ^b   Grégoire, Jean Marie ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^c FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOPHYSICS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); VEGETATION;

GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS (GSA);

REMOTE SENSING;

REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; SPOT; VEGETATION; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 0036788881     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00037-8     Document Type: Article

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