An alternative method to compute the component fractions in the geometrical optical model: Visual computing method

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 719-722

  Su, Hong Bo ^a,b   Zhang, Ren Hua ^a   Tang, Xin Zhai ^a   Sun, Xiao Min ^a   Zhu, Zhi Lin ^a   Li, Zhao Liang ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Faculté de Médecine   (France)

Author keywords

Four components; Geometrical optical (GO) model; Quantitative remote sensing; Visual computing

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VEGETATION;

QUANTITATIVE REMOTE SENSING; VISUAL COMPUTING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0037946773     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.810207     Document Type: Letter

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