Modeling and mapping of soil salinity with reflectance spectroscopy and landsat data using two quantitative methods (PLSR and MARS)

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 10813-10834

  Nawar, Said ^a,b   Buddenbaum, Henning ^c   Hill, Joachim ^c   Kozak, Jacek ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b University of Suez Canal   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Egypt; Landsat; MARS; PLSR; Reflectance spectra; Soil salinity

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAPPING; PIXELS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING;

EGYPT; LANDSAT; MARS; PLSR; REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM; SOIL SALINITY;

SOILS;

EID: 84912079716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61110813     Document Type: Article

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