Scaling of thermal images at different spatial resolution: The mixed pixel problem

Agronomy

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 380-396

  Jones, Hamlyn G ^a,b   Sirault, Xavier R R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Image aggregation; Image disaggregation; Mixed pixels; Oversampling; Super resolution; Up scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922965447     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/agronomy4030380     Document Type: Review

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