Imaging spectroscopy for desertification studies: Comparing AVIRIS and EO-1 Hyperion in Argentina drylands

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 6 PART I, 2003, Pages 1283-1296

  Asner, Gregory P ^a,b   Heidebrecht, Kathleen B ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne visible infrared imaging spectrometer (AVIRIS); Argentina; Desertification; Drylands; Earth Observing 1; Hyperion; Imaging spectroscopy; Land degradation; Monte Desert; Spectral mixture analysis

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; STATISTICAL METHODS; VEGETATION;

DESERTIFICATION; DRYLANDS; HYPERION; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED IMAGING SPECTROMETER; LAND DEGRADATION; PHENOLOGY; SPATIAL COMPLEXITY; SPECTRAL MIXTURE MODEL;

EARTH SCIENCES;

EID: 0042884026     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.812903     Document Type: Article

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