Variations in reflectance with seasonality and viewing geometry: Implications for classification of Brazilian savanna physiognomies with MISR/Terra data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 276-286

  Liesenberg, Veraldo ^a   Galvão, Lênio Soares ^a   Ponzoni, Flávio Jorge ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cerrado; Classification; MISR; Savanna; Seasonality; Sun zenith; View angle

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; VEGETATION;

CERRADO; MULTI ANGLE IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MISR); SAVANNA; SEASONALITY; SUN ZENITH; VIEW ANGLE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ANISOTROPY; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; CERRADO; GEOMETRY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LEAF AREA INDEX; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NADIR; NDVI; PIXEL; RADIOMETRIC SURVEY; SATELLITE DATA; SAVANNA; SEASONALITY; VIEW; ZENITH ANGLE;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33847011739     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.03.018     Document Type: Article

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