Identification of archaeological buried remains based on the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) from quickbird satellite data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 325-328

  Lasaponara, Rosa ^a   Masini, Nicola ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aerial archaeology; Crop marks; Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI); QuickBird; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; SATELLITES; VEGETATION;

AERIAL ARCHAEOLOGY; CROP MARKS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI); QUICKBIRD;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 33746602728     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2006.871747     Document Type: Article

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