Spatio-temporal assessment of tuz gölü, Turkey as a potential radiometric vicarious calibration site

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2494-2513

  Odongo, Vincent O ^a,b   Hamm, Nicholas A S ^b   Milton, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Getis statistic; Radiometry; Spatial variation; Validation; Vicarious calibration

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; GETIS STATISTICS; HEMISPHERICAL-DIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE FACTORS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER IMAGES; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; VALIDATION; VICARIOUS CALIBRATION; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 84896993664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6032494     Document Type: Article

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