Multispectral vegetation indices in remote sensing: An overview

Ecological Modeling

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 15-34

  Petropoulos, George P ^a   Kalaitzidis, Chariton ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Department of Geoinformation   (Greece)

Author keywords

Optical satellites; Radiometric vegetation indices; Remote sensing; Vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892943837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
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