Monitoring urban greenness dynamics using multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Gan, Muye ^a   Deng, Jinsong ^a,b   Zheng, Xinyu ^a   Hong, Yang ^b,c   Wang, Ke ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CITY PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE ENDMEMBER SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; CITY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; IMAGE PROCESSING; PLANT; PROCEDURES; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHINA; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84910642523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112202     Document Type: Article

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