Improvements to ASTER-derived fractional estimates of bare ground in a savanna rangeland

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 662-670

  Gill, Tony K ^a   Phinn, Stuart R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advanced spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER); Bare ground (BG); Lignin and cellulose absorption (LCA) index; Monte Carlo spectral mixture analysis (MCSMA); Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI); Rangeland monitoring

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LIGNIN; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MIXTURES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROSCOPY; VEGETATION;

ADVANCED SPACEBORNE THERMAL EMISSION AND REFLECTION RADIOMETER; BARE GROUNDS; LIGNIN AND CELLULOSE ABSORPTION INDICES; MONTE CARLO SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; RANGELAND MONITORING;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ASTER; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUND COVER; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RANGELAND; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SAVANNA; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

ABSORPTION; CELLULOSE; CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; ESTIMATES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND; LIFE CYCLE; LIGNINS; MIXTURES; MONITORING; PLANTS; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION; SATELLITES;

EID: 59849084085     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2004628     Document Type: Conference Paper

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