Deriving consistent long-term vegetation information from AVHRR reflectance data using a cover-triangle-based framework

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2938-2949

  Donohue, Randall J ^a,b   Roderick, Michael L ^b   McVicar, Tim R ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atmospheric effects; AVHRR; Cover triangle; Dark point; fPAR; NDVI; Reflectance; Sensor calibration; Soil line; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA STRUCTURES; REMOTE SENSING;

ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; COVER TRIANGLE; DARK POINTS; SENSOR CALIBRATION; SOIL LINES; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

VEGETATION;

AVHRR; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; NDVI; NEAR INFRARED; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; REFLECTANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; SOIL; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 43949145240     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.02.008     Document Type: Article

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