Discriminating urban vegetation from a metropolitan matrix through partial unmixing with hyperspectral AVIRIS data

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 261-275

  Golubiewski, Nancy E ^a   Wessman, Carol A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DIGITAL STORAGE; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY;

AIRBORNE VISIBLE/INFRARED IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; ANTHROPOGENIC COMPONENTS; BIOPHYSICAL INFORMATION; ECOLOGICAL PROCESS; HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGERIES; UNMIXING ALGORITHMS; VEGETATION - IMPERVIOUS SURFACE - SOIL MODELS; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

VEGETATION;

EID: 78650026037     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m10-041     Document Type: Article

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