Improving estimates of fractional vegetation cover based on UAV in alpine grassland on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1922-1936

  Chen, Jianjun ^a,b   Yi, Shuhua ^a   Qin, Yu ^a   Wang, Xiaoyun ^a,b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ESTIMATION; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURVEYS; VEGETATION;

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; ALPINE GRASSLANDS; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; ECOSYSTEM BALANCE; FRACTIONAL VEGETATION COVER; REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY; UNDERLYING SURFACE; VEGETATION INDEX;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRASSLAND; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL EROSION; VEGETATION COVER;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84963808203     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2016.1165884     Document Type: Article

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