Field and Airborne Spectroscopy Cross Validation -Some Considerations

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1117-1135

  Hueni, Andreas ^a   Damm, Alexander ^a   Kneubuehler, Mathias ^a   Schlapfer, Daniel ^b   Schaepman, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ReSe Ap Plications Schläpter   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Calibration; information systems; radiometry; spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA HANDLING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RADIOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY;

AIRBORNE IMAGING; CROSS VALIDATION; FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; MEASUREMENT PROCESS; MULTIDIMENSIONALITY; NATURAL ILLUMINATION; PROCESSING STAGE; SURFACE INTERACTIONS;

IN SITU PROCESSING;

AIRBORNE SENSING; CALIBRATION; INFORMATION SYSTEM; METADATA; RADIOMETRIC SURVEY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 85027489567     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2593984     Document Type: Article

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