Developing consistent landsat data sets for large area applications: The MRLC 2001 protocol

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 777-781

  Chander, Gyanesh ^a,b   Huang, Chengquan ^c   Yang, Limin ^b   Homer, Collin ^b   Larson, Charles ^a,b  

^a SGT INC   (United States)

^b EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Brightness temperature; Landsat; Multi Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC); National Land Cover Data set (NLCD); Radiance; Reflectance; Tassel cap transformations

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; LANDSAT; MULTI-RESOLUTION LAND CHARACTERISTICS (MRLC); NATIONAL LAND COVER DATA SET (NLCD); RADIANCE; REFLECTANCE; TASSEL-CAP TRANSFORMATIONS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS; PROCESSING; REFLECTION; TEMPERATURE;

LANDFORMS;

BRIGHTNESS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REFLECTANCE; SATELLITES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 70350062964     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2025244     Document Type: Article

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