Spectral mixture analysis to assess post-fire vegetation regeneration using Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery: Accounting for soil brightness variation

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-11

  Veraverbeke, S ^a,b   Somers, B ^c   Gitas, I ^d   Katagis, T ^d   Polychronaki, A ^d   Goossens, R ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fire Vegetation recovery Landsat Thematic Mapper Spectral mixture analysis MESMA Segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MODELING; SATELLITE DATA; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER; WILDFIRE;

GREECE; PELOPONNESE;

EID: 84864406718     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2011.08.004     Document Type: Article

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