Spectral unmixing model to assess land cover fractions in Mongolian steppe regions

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2361-2372

  Byambakhuu, Ishgaldan ^a   Sugita, Michiaki ^a   Matsushima, Dai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

BRDF; Land cover fractions; Mongolia; Semi arid and arid area; Spectral unmixing model; Viewing geometry

Indexed keywords

ARID AREA; LAND COVER; MONGOLIA; SEMI ARID; SPECTRAL UNMIXING; SPECTRAL UNMIXING MODEL; VIEWING GEOMETRY;

ARID REGIONS; CAMERAS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; LANDFORMS; VEGETATION;

REFLECTION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AZIMUTH; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; CLIMATIC REGION; DATA SET; GEOMETRY; LAND COVER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SATELLITE SENSOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; STEPPE; VEGETATION TYPE;

MONGOLIA;

EID: 77955267878     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.05.013     Document Type: Article

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