A hybrid visual estimation method for the collection of ground truth fractional coverage data in a humid tropical environment

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 504-514

  Delamater, Paul L ^a   Messina, Joseph P ^a   Qi, Jiaguo ^a   Cochrane, Mark A ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractional coverage fc percent vegetation cover visual estimation ndvi spectral mixture analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; LANDSCAPE; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION COVER; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

ECUADOR;

EID: 84864514639     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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