An improved ASTER index for remote sensing of crop residue

Remote Sensing

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 971-991

  Serbin, Guy ^a   Hunt Jr , E Raymond ^b   Daughtry, Craig S T ^b   McCarty, Gregory W ^b   Doraiswamy, Paul C ^b  

^a Washington DC   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural remote sensing; ASTER; Crop residue; Non photosynthetic vegetation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL REMOTE SENSING; ASTER; BROAD BANDS; CARBON CYCLES; CELLULOSE ABSORPTION INDICES; CROP RESIDUE; FR ESTIMATION; GROUND BASED; MULTISPECTRAL SENSORS; NARROW BANDS; NEW INDICES; NON-PHOTOSYNTHETIC VEGETATION; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCES; RAPID ESTIMATION; SHORT WAVE INFRARED;

CROPS; REMOTE SENSING;

AGRICULTURAL WASTES;

EID: 78650865576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs1040971     Document Type: Article

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