Incorporating endmember variability into linear unmixing of coarse resolution imagery: Mapping large-scale impervious surface abundance using a hierarchically object-based spectral mixture analysis

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 9205-9229

  Deng, Chengbin ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endmember variability; Impervious surface; MODIS; Multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis; Spectral mixture analysis

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; MAPPING; MIXTURES; RADIOMETERS;

ENDMEMBER VARIABILITIES; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; MODIS; MULTIPLE ENDMEMBER SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS;

PHOTOMAPPING;

EID: 84937896663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70709205     Document Type: Article

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