Validating GEOV1 fractional vegetation cover derived from coarse-resolution remote sensing images over croplands

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

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 439-446

  Mu, Xihan ^a   Huang, Shuai ^a,b   Ren, Huazhong ^b   Yan, Guangjian ^a   Song, Wanjuan ^a   Ruan, Gaiyan ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coarse resolution; fractional vegetation cover; product validation; SPOT VEGETATION

Indexed keywords

CROPS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; REMOTE SENSING;

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; FRACTIONAL VEGETATION COVER; HIGH RESOLUTION DATA; PRODUCT VALIDATION; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; SPOT/VEGETATION; SYSTEMATIC UNCERTAINTIES; VEGETATION DISTRIBUTION;

VEGETATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NADIR; REMOTE SENSING; SPOT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPSCALING; VEGETATION COVER;

CHINA; GANSU; HEIHE BASIN;

EID: 85027923665     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2342257     Document Type: Article

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