Aquatic vegetation indices assessment through radiative transfer modeling and linear mixture simulation

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 113-127

  Villa, Paolo ^a   Mousivand, Alijafar ^b   Bresciani, Mariano ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

NDAVI; Radiative transfer models; Remote sensing; Sensitivity analysis; Vegetation indices; WAVI

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; MODELING; NDVI; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION TYPE;

ITALY; LAKE GARDA;

EID: 84897520306     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2014.01.017     Document Type: Article

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