A comparison of methods for estimating fractional vegetation cover in arid regions

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 151, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1698-1710

  Jiapaer, Guli ^a   Chen, Xi ^a   Bao, Anming ^a  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

Fractional vegetation cover; Maximal gradient difference model; NDVI; Sparse desert vegetation; Spectral mixture analysis

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DESERT; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROWING SEASON; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NDVI; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIXEL; PRECISION; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW COVER; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION MAPPING;

CHINA; JIANGXI; XIN RIVER;

EID: 80054907200     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.07.004     Document Type: Article

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