Evaluation of broadband and narrowband vegetation indices for the identification of archaeological crop marks

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3892-3919

  Agapiou, Athos ^a   Hadjimitsis, Diofantos G ^a   Alexakis, Dimitrios D ^a  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Alampra test field; Crop marks; Ground spectroscopy; Remote sensing archaeology; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL CROP MARKS; CRITICAL EVALUATION; CROP MARKS; HYPERION; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY; LANDSAT TM; MULTI-SPECTRAL; NARROW BANDS; PHENOLOGICAL CYCLES; TEST FIELDS; VEGETATION INDEX;

CROPS; PHENOLS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84872315679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4123892     Document Type: Article

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