Remote sensing of seasonal variability of fractional vegetation cover and its object-based spatial pattern analysis over mountain areas

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 77, Issue , 2013, Pages 79-93

  Yang, Guijun ^a,b,c   Pu, Ruiliang ^d   Zhang, Jixian ^e   Zhao, Chunjiang ^a,b   Feng, Haikuan ^a,b   Wang, Jihua ^a,b  

^a Beijing Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^e CHINESE ACADEMY OF SURVEYING AND MAPPING   (China)

Author keywords

FVC; Landsat TM image; Landscape analysis; Patch analysis; Segmentation; Topographic and atmospheric effect

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; FVC; LANDSAT TM IMAGES; LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS; PATCH ANALYSIS;

LANDFORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT; MEGACITY; MONTANE FOREST; MOUNTAIN REGION; NDVI; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIXEL; RECONSTRUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VEGETATION COVER;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84873248258     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2012.11.008     Document Type: Article

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