Estimating aboveground green biomass in desert steppe using band depth indices

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 67-78

  Ren, Hongrui ^a   Zhou, Guangsheng ^b,c  

^a TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Aboveground green biomass; Band depth indices; Continuum removal; Desert steppe; Hyperspectral remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY;

BAND DEPTHS; BIOMASS ESTIMATION; BIOMASS MEASUREMENTS; CONTINUUM REMOVAL; DESERT STEPPE; GRASSLAND PRODUCTIVITY; HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGES; HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84949117051     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2014.08.014     Document Type: Article

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