Relative radiometric correction of multi-temporal ALOS AVNIR-2 data for the estimation of forest attributes

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-78

  Xu, Qing ^a   Hou, Zhengyang ^a,b   Tokola, Timo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b EUROPEAN FOREST INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bi temporal principle component analysis; Estimation accuracy; Local radiometric correction; Multi temporal images; Multivariate alteration detection (MAD) transformation; Pseudo invariant features

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; AUXILIARY-FIELDS; AVNIR-2; CORRECTION METHOD; CROSS VALIDATION; ESTIMATION PROCEDURES; FOREST DEGRADATION; LEAVE-ONE-OUT; MULTI-TEMPORAL; MULTI-TEMPORAL IMAGE; MULTIVARIATE ALTERATION DETECTION (MAD) TRANSFORMATION; NATIONAL FORESTS; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSEUDO-INVARIANT FEATURES; RADIOMETRIC CORRECTION METHODS; RELATIVE RADIOMETRIC CORRECTION; SATELLITE DATA; SPECTRAL FEATURE; STEM VOLUME; TEXTURAL FEATURE; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED RADIOMETERS; VISUAL EFFECTS;

DEFORESTATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RADIOMETRY;

ESTIMATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALOS; AVNIR; BIOMASS; ERROR CORRECTION; FOREST RESOURCE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE DATA; STAND STRUCTURE; STEM; TRANSFORM; VEGETATION MAPPING;

DEFORESTATION; ESTIMATION; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 84856441386     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2011.12.008     Document Type: Article

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