Oakwood crown closure estimation by unmixing Landsat TM data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 4422-4445

  Pu, R ^a   Xu, B ^a   Gong, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; WOOD;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; THEMATIC MAPPER (TM) IMAGES;

REMOTE SENSING;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CANOPY GAP; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CALIFORNIA; TULARE COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0344688139     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0143116031000095989     Document Type: Article

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