Improving estimates of grassland fractional vegetation cover based on a pixel dichotomy model: A case study in Inner Mongolia, China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 4705-4722

  Li, Fei ^a   Chen, Wei ^b   Zeng, Yuan ^a   Zhao, Qianjun ^a   Wu, Bingfang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fractional vegetation cover; Grassland; Inner mongolia; Landsat 8; MODIS; Pixel dichotomy model

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS;

DICHOTOMY MODEL; FRACTIONAL VEGETATION COVER; GRASSLAND; INNER MONGOLIA; LANDSAT; MODIS;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84901462201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6064705     Document Type: Article

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