Relationships between dominant plant species, fractional cover and Land Surface Temperature in a Mediterranean ecosystem

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 167, Issue , 2015, Pages 152-167

  Roberts, Dar A ^a   Dennison, Philip E ^b   Roth, Keely L ^c   Dudley, Kenneth ^b   Hulley, Glynn ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

AVIRIS; Classification; HyspIRI; Land Surface Temperature; MASTER; Mediterranean ecosystems; Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ECOSYSTEMS; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; MIXTURES; PIXELS; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VEGETATION;

AVIRIS; HYSPIRI; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MASTER; MEDITERRANEAN ECOSYSTEM; MULTIPLE ENDMEMBER SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS;

SPECTROMETERS;

ALGORITHM; ASTER; AVIRIS; DOMINANCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; PIXEL; PLANT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

CALIFORNIA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SANTA BARBARA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84938960945     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.01.026     Document Type: Article

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