Effects of topography on the radiometry of CHRIS/PROBA images of successional stages within tropical dry forests

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1584-1595

  Garcia Millan, Virginia Elena ^a   Sanchez Azofeifa, G A ^b   Malvarez, Gonzalo C ^a   More, Gerard ^c,d   Pons, Xavier ^c,d   Yamanaka Ocampo, Mauricio ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d CREAF   (Spain)

Author keywords

Forest succession; hyperspectral sensors; multi angular observations; surface topography; tropical dry forest

Indexed keywords

CHRIS/PROBA IMAGES; COSINE OF THE ANGLES; FOREST SUCCESSION; HYPERSPECTRAL SENSORS; MULTI-ANGULAR OBSERVATIONS; RIPARIAN FORESTS; SUCCESSIONAL STAGES; TROPICAL DRY FOREST;

DECISION TREES; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

ALGORITHM; DRY FOREST; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PROBA; RADIOMETRIC SURVEY; RIPARIAN FOREST; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHY; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION MAPPING;

FORESTS; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84880058919     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2259471     Document Type: Article

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