Deriving vegetation fraction information for the alpine grassland on the Tibetan plateau using in situ spectral data

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Bo ^a   Shen, Weishou ^a   Lin, Naifeng ^a   Li, Ru ^b   Yue, Yuemin ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

alpine grasslands; Tibet plateau; vegetation fraction; vegetation index

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING;

ALPINE GRASSLANDS; ANALYTICAL SPECTRAL DEVICES; ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPERS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS; TIBET PLATEAU; VEGETATION FRACTIONS; VEGETATION INDEX;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84901316274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.8.083630     Document Type: Article

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