Multisensor comparisons and validation of MODIS vegetation indices at the semiarid jornada experimental range

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 10 PART I, 2003, Pages 2368-2381

  Gao, Xiang ^a   Huete, Alfredo R ^a   Didan, Kamel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS); Multisensor; Scaling; Validation; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLOUDS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SPECTROMETERS; VEGETATION;

MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SCALING; VEGETATION INDEX;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0242292073     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.813840     Document Type: Article

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