Performance of atmospheric and topographic correction methods on Landsat imagery in mountain areas

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 4952-4972

  Vanonckelen, Steven ^a   Lhermitte, Stef ^b   Balthazar, Vincent ^c   Van Rompaey, Anton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; LANDFORMS; WATER ABSORPTION;

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PREPROCESSING TECHNIQUES; REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; STATISTICAL PERFORMANCE; TOPOGRAPHIC CORRECTION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS;

REMOTE SENSING;

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGERY; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; MAPPING METHOD; MOUNTAIN REGION; NDVI; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

CARPATHIANS; ROMANIA;

EID: 84904967980     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2014.933280     Document Type: Article

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