A spectral reflectance-based approach to quantification of grassland cover from Landsat TM imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 87, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 371-375

  Zha, Yong ^a   Gao, Jay ^b   Ni, Shaoxiang ^a   Liu, Yansui ^c   Jiang, Jianjun ^a   Wei, Yuchun ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Grassland cover; Quantitative remote sensing; Spectral reflectance; TM imagery

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SATELLITES; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

GRASS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI); QUANTIFICATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

GRASSLAND; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; VEGETATION COVER;

CALIBRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SPECTROMETERS;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

EID: 6344253831     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2003.05.001     Document Type: Article

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