Spectral response function comparability among 21 satellite sensors for vegetation monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1319-1335

  Gonsamo, Alemu ^a   Chen, Jing M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross sensor comparability; Earth Observing System (EOS) land validation core sites; normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) continuity; reflectance; spectral response function (SRF)

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES; CORRECTION APPROACHES; CORRECTION COEFFICIENTS; CROSS-SENSOR COMPARABILITY; DATA STREAM; EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITES; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; LAND COVER; MULTI-SENSOR DATA; MULTISENSOR SATELLITES; NEAR INFRA RED; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; POLYNOMIAL REGRESSION; PROCESSING STRATEGIES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SATELLITE SENSORS; SENSOR SYSTEMS; SHORT WAVE INFRARED; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; SPECTRAL BAND; SPECTRAL CURVES; SPECTRAL DIFFERENCES; SPECTRAL RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; TRAINING DATA SETS; VEGETATION DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION MONITORING;

INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; REFLECTION; SATELLITES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

SENSORS;

ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA SET; LAND COVER; MONITORING; NDVI; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 84874649029     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2198828     Document Type: Article

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