Spectral indices for estimating ecological indicators of karst rocky desertification

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2115-2122

  Yue, Yuemin ^a   Zhang, Bing ^b   Wang, Kelin ^a   Liu, Bo ^c   Li, Ru ^d   Jiao, Quanjun ^b   Yang, Qingqing ^a   Zhang, Mingyang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ECOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SOILS; VEGETATION;

ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; GEOLOGICAL SETTING; HUMAN DISTURBANCES; LAND DESERTIFICATION; LINEAR SPECTRAL UNMIXING; NON-PHOTOSYNTHETIC VEGETATION; VEGETATION-LAND COVER TYPE;

LANDFORMS;

BEDROCK; BIOINDICATOR; DESERTIFICATION; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ESTIMATION METHOD; KARST; LAND COVER; LAND DEGRADATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REFLECTANCE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION INDEX;

NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS;

EID: 77951790504     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160903382892     Document Type: Article

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