A mangrove recognition index for remote sensing of mangrove forest from space

Current Science

Volumn 105, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1149-1154

  Zhang, Xuehong ^a,b   Tian, Qingjiu ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Mangrove forest index; Remote sensing; Tasseled cap transformation; Tide level.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886643737     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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