Crown closure estimation of oak savannah in a dry season with Landsat TM imagery: Comparison of various indices through correlation analysis

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1811-1822

  Xu, Bing ^a   Gong, Peng ^a   Pu, Ruiliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADIOMETRY; VEGETATION;

CROWN CLOSURE ESTIMATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; FOREST CANOPY; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

CROWNS; PLANTS; QUERCUS; REMOTE SENSING;

CALIFORNIA; TULARE COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038181122     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160210144598     Document Type: Article

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