Spectral unmixing of forest crown components at close range, airborne and simulated Sentinel-2 and EnMAP spectral imaging scale

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 15361-15387

  Clasen, Anne ^a,b   Somers, Ben ^c   Pipkins, Kyle ^a   Tits, Laurent ^c   Segl, Karl ^b   Brell, Max ^b   Kleinschmit, Birgit ^a   Spengler, Daniel ^b   Lausch, Angela ^d   Förster, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bark; Endmembers; EnMAP; Forest; MESMA; NDVI; Sentinel 2; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY; VEGETATION;

BARK; ENDMEMBERS; ENMAP; FOREST; MESMA; NDVI; SENTINEL-2; UPSCALING;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84950154041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs71115361     Document Type: Article

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