Comparison the accuracies of different spectral indices for estimation of vegetation cover fraction in sparse vegetated areas

Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Science

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 49-56

  Barati, Susan ^a   Rayegani, Behzad ^a   Saati, Mehdi ^a   Sharifi, Alireza ^b   Nasri, Masoud ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

LISS III; Remote sensing; Vegetation cover fraction; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; FRACTIONAL VEGETATION COVER; LISS-III; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION MODELS; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION INDEX;

VEGETATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 80052269811     PISSN: 11109823     EISSN: 20902476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrs.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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