Examining spectral reflectance features related to Arctic percent vegetation cover: Implications for hyperspectral remote sensing of Arctic tundra

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 192, Issue , 2017, Pages 58-72

  Liu, Nanfeng ^a   Budkewitsch, Paul ^b,c   Treitz, Paul ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^c Government of Nunavut   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biophysical remote sensing; Field spectroscopy; Hyperion; NDVI; Spectral indices; Vegetation indices; WorldView 3

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; LANDFORMS; LIGNIN; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER ABSORPTION;

FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; HYPERION; NDVI; SPECTRAL INDICES; VEGETATION INDEX; WORLDVIEW-3;

VEGETATION;

BIOPHYSICS; FIELD METHOD; INDEX METHOD; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; SPECTROSCOPY; TUNDRA; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION TYPE; WORLDVIEW;

CELLULOSE; DATA; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY;

ARCTIC; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; MELVILLE ISLAND [QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS]; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS;

EID: 85012253767     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.02.002     Document Type: Article

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