Linearized vegetation indices based on a formal statistical framework

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1575-1585

  Ünsalan, Cem ^a   Boyer, Kim L ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

IKONOS data; Multispectral images; Principal components analysis (PCA); Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMASS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA REDUCTION; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; VEGETATION;

IKONOS DATA; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES; VEGETATION INDICES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 3843076325     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.826787     Document Type: Article

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