Analysis of the scaling effects in the area-averaged fraction of vegetation cover retrieved using an ndvi-isoline-based linear mixture model

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2156-2180

  Obata, Kenta ^a,b   Miura, Tomoaki ^b   Yoshioka, Hiroki ^a  

^a AICHI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Fraction of vegetation cover; Monotonicity; NDVI; Resolution transformation model; Scaling effect

Indexed keywords

FRACTION OF VEGETATION COVER; MONOTONICITY; NDVI; SCALING EFFECTS; TRANSFORMATION MODEL;

ERROR ANALYSIS; SENSORS;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84864968131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4072156     Document Type: Article

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