Quantifying the impact of NDVIsoil determination methods and NDVIsoil variability on the estimation of fractional vegetation cover in Northeast China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Ding, Yanling ^a   Zheng, Xingming ^b,c   Zhao, Kai ^b,c   Xin, Xiaoping ^d   Liu, Huanjun ^b  

^a NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Dimidiate pixel model; Fractional vegetation cover; HWSD; NDVIsoil; Soil background

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957863397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8010029     Document Type: Article

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