Coupling spectral unmixing and trend analysis for monitoring of long-term vegetation dynamics in Mediterranean rangelands

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 87, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 183-197

  Hostert, Patrick ^a   Röder, Achim ^b   Hill, Joachim ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Landsat; Long term monitoring; Rangelands; Spectral mixture analysis; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; SENSORS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

COUPLING SPECTRAL UNMIXING; FRACTION IMAGES; LAND DEGRADATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; RANGELAND; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CRETE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 10844238130     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/80034-4257(03)00145-7     Document Type: Article

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