Generating 275-m resolution land surface products from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 10 PART2, 2012, Pages 3980-3990

  Verstraete, Michel M ^a,b   Hunt, Linda A ^c   Scholes, Robert J ^b   Clerici, Marco ^a   Pinty, Bernard ^a   Nelson, David L ^d  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Earth observing system; ecosystems; high resolution imaging; inverse problems; spectroradiometers; vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; SPECTRO-RADIOMETERS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

IMAGE RESOLUTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; RADIOMETERS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ECOSYSTEMS;

DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EOS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND SURFACE; MISR; RADIOMETER; SAVANNA; TERRA (SATELLITE); VEGETATION MAPPING;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84867073245     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2189575     Document Type: Article

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