Characterization of forest types in Northeastern China, using multi-temporal SPOT-4 VEGETATION sensor data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 82, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 335-348

  Xiao, Xiangming ^a   Boles, Stephen ^a   Liu, Jiyuan ^b   Zhuang, Dafang ^b   Liu, Mingliang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; FORESTRY; MOISTURE; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS; VEGETATION;

NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE WATER INDEX (NDWE);

REMOTE SENSING;

FOREST; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; NDVI; SPOT; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

CHINA;

EID: 0036788924     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00051-2     Document Type: Article

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