Phenology-based vegetation index differencing for mapping of rubber plantations using landsat OLI data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 6041-6058

  Fan, Hui ^a   Fu, Xiaohua ^a   Zhang, Zheng ^a   Wu, Qiong ^a  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Image differencing; Lancang Mekong; Landsat 8 OLI; Phenology; Rubber plantations; Thresholding; Xishuangbanna

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; FORESTRY; MAPPING; RUBBER; VEGETATION;

IMAGE DIFFERENCING; LANCANG-MEKONG; LANDSAT; PHENOLOGY; THRESHOLDING; XISHUANGBANNA;

RUBBER PLANTATIONS;

COEFFICIENTS; FORESTS; IMAGES; KAPPA NUMBER; PHENOLOGY; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84930031792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70506041     Document Type: Article

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