The performance of vegetation indices for operational monitoring of CORINE vegetation types

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3268-3285

  Alexandridis, T K ^a   Oikonomakis, N ^a   Gitas, I Z ^a   Eskridge, K M ^b   Silleos, N G ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDITION MONITORING; FORESTRY; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; OPERATIONAL MONITORING; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES; STATISTICAL MEASURES; VEGETATION CONDITION; VEGETATION MONITORING;

VEGETATION;

BIOPHYSICS; CLOUD COVER; CORRELATION; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION INDEX;

EID: 84899652383     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2014.902548     Document Type: Article

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