Applicability of Green-Red Vegetation Index for remote sensing of vegetation phenology

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2369-2387

  Motohka, Takeshi ^a   Nasahara, Kenlo Nishida ^a   Oguma, Hiroyuki ^b   Tsuchida, Satoshi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Digital camera; Green Red Vegetation Index; Phenological eyes network; Phenology; Remote sensing; Spectral reflectance

Indexed keywords

GREEN-RED VEGETATION INDEX; GREEN-UP; GROUND SURFACES; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; PHENOLOGICAL EYES NETWORK; PHENOLOGY; SEASONAL CHANGES; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCES; VEGETATION INDEX; VEGETATION PHENOLOGY;

BIOLOGY; CAMERAS; ECOSYSTEMS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING;

VEGETATION;

EID: 80051868302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2102369     Document Type: Article

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