Land cover mapping in support of LAI and FPAR retrievals from EOS-MODIS and MISR: Classification methods and sensitivities to errors

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1997-2016

  Lotsch, A ^a   Tian, Y ^a   Friedl, M A ^a   Myneni, R B ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RADIATION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

LAND COVERS;

MAPPING;

ALGORITHM; AVHRR; CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODIS; NDVI; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EID: 0037768283     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160210154858     Document Type: Article

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