Hyperspectral Remote Sensing with Emphasis on Land Cover Mapping: From Ground to Satellite Observations

Scale Issues in Remote Sensing

Volumn 9781118305041, Issue , 2014, Pages 285-320

  Petropoulos, George P ^a   Manevski, Kiril ^b   Carlson, Toby N ^c  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Field spectroradiometry; Hyperspectral remote sensing; Land cover extraction; Land cover mapping

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; MAPPING; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROMETERS;

EXTRACTING INFORMATION; FIELD SPECTRORADIOMETRY; HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; LAND COVER; LAND COVER EXTRACTIONS; LAND COVER MAPPING; LAND USE/COVER; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPECTRAL SEPARATION; STATISTICAL APPROACH;

LAND USE;

EID: 84926398379     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118801628.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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