Quantifying biomass production on rangeland in southern Alberta using SPOT imagery

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 695-708

  Grant, Kristin M ^a,b   Johnson, Dan L ^b   Hildebrand, David V ^c   Peddle, Derek R ^b  

^a Blackbridge Geomatics Corp   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^c Agriculture Financial Service Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUNDS; ALBERTA; ALBERTA , CANADA; BATTERY OF TESTS; BIOMASS PRODUCTIONS; DEAD MATTER; ECOREGIONS; FIELD SAMPLING; FIELD VALIDATION; FUNCTIONAL EQUIVALENCE; GREEN BAND; GROWING SEASON; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; IMAGING DATES; MULTI-SPECTRAL; MULTI-TEMPORAL; MULTI-TEMPORAL IMAGERIES; NEAR INFRARED BAND; NON-PHOTOSYNTHETIC VEGETATION; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; OPERATIONAL MONITORING; POWER FUNCTIONS; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; PREDICTIVE MODELS; PREDICTIVE POWER; PREVIOUS YEAR; SAMPLING DATES; SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS; STUDY AREAS; TOTAL BIOMASS; VEGETATION BIOMASS; VEGETATION INDEX;

FORESTRY; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION;

BIOMASS;

EID: 84874748964     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m12-056     Document Type: Article

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