Remote sensing of vegetation with landsat imagery

Advances in Environmental Remote Sensing: Sensors, Algorithms, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3-29

  Song, Conghe ^a   Gray, Joshua M ^a   Gao, Feng ^b  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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