Overview of the radiometric and biophysical performance of the MODIS vegetation indices

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 83, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 195-213

  Huete, A ^a   Didan, K ^a   Miura, T ^a   Rodriguez, E P ^a   Gao, X ^a   Ferreira, L G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION; SENSORS; VEGETATION;

FOREST BIOMES;

REMOTE SENSING;

MODIS; NDVI; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHENOLOGY; VEGETATION INDEX;

EID: 0036846393     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00096-2     Document Type: Article

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