A comparison of methods for estimating fractional green vegetation cover within a desert-to-upland transition zone in central New Mexico, USA

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 98, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 237-250

  Xiao, Jingfeng ^a   Moody, Aaron ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractional green vegetation cover; Landsat; NDVI; Semi arid; Spectral mixture analysis

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

FRACTIONAL GREEN VEGETATION COVER; LANDSAT; NDVI; SEMI-ARID; VEGETATION MIXTURE ANALYSIS;

VEGETATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SEMIARID REGION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 25844472385     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2005.07.011     Document Type: Article

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