Radiative transfer modeling of the effect of mineralogy on some empirical methods for estimating iron concentration from multispectral imaging of the Moon

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Lucey, Paul G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; IRON OXIDE; LUNAR SOIL; MINERALOGY; MOON; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

EID: 33846527411     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JE002661     Document Type: Article

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