The retrieval of shrub fractional cover based on a geometric-optical model in combination with linear spectral mixture analysis

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 348-358

  Cao, Chunxiang ^a   Chen, Wei ^a,b   Li, Guanghe ^a   Jia, Huicong ^a   Ji, Wei ^a   Xu, Min ^a,b   Gao, Mengxu ^a,b   Ni, Xiliang ^a,b   Zhao, Jian ^a,b   Zheng, Sheng ^a,b   Tian, Rong ^a,b   Liu, Cheng ^a,b   Li, Sha ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS; COMBINED METHOD; COMPARISON STUDY; FRACTIONAL COVER; GEOMETRIC CORRECTION; INNER MONGOLIA; KEY PARAMETERS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; LINEAR SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS; MIXED PIXEL; MU US SANDLAND; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES; REGRESSION METHOD; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARED; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TWO-COMPONENT;

MIXTURES; REFLECTION; VEGETATION;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 84870013946     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m11-044     Document Type: Article

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