Estimation of Vegetation Coverage in Semi-arid Sandy Land Based on Multivariate Statistical Modeling Using Remote Sensing Data

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 547-558

  Chen, Wei ^a   Sakai, Tetsuro ^a   Moriya, Kazuyuki ^a   Koyama, Lina ^a   Cao, Chunxiang ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Correlation analysis; Environment assessment; Remote sensing; Statistical modeling; Vegetation coverage; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT ASSESSMENTS; STATISTICAL MODELING; VEGETATION COVERAGE; VEGETATION INDEX;

REMOTE SENSING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84883654696     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10666-013-9359-1     Document Type: Article

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