A Comparison of Spectral Mixture Analysis and Ten Vegetation Indices for Estimating Boreal Forest Biophysical Information from Airborne Data

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 627-635

  Peddle, D R ^a   Brunke, S P ^a,b   Hall, F G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b RADARSAT International   (Canada)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFRARED IMAGING; RADAR IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

BOREAL FOREST CFL NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; LEAF AREA INDEX; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY CFL STEM DENSITY CFL BASAL FRACTION; SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS; VEGETATION INDEX;

REMOTE SENSING;

BASAL AREA; BIOMASS; FORESTS; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STEMS;

EID: 0142028370     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07038992.2001.10854903     Document Type: Article

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