Mapping the spectral soil quality index (SSQI) using airborne imaging spectroscopy

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 15748-15781

  Paz Kagan, Tarin ^a   Zaady, Eli ^b   Salbach, Christoph ^c   Schmidt, Andreas ^c   Lausch, Angela ^c   Zacharias, Steffen ^c   Notesco, Gila ^d   Ben Dor, Eyal ^d   Karnieli, Arnon ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Imaging spectroscopy; Land use change; Reflectance spectroscopy; Soil quality index; Spectral soil quality index

Indexed keywords

LAND USE; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PHOTOMAPPING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOILS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; LAND-USE CHANGE; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SOIL QUALITY INDEX;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84950117305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs71115748     Document Type: Article

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