Assessing the effects of site heterogeneity and soil properties when unmixing photosynthetic vegetation, non-photosynthetic vegetation and bare soil fractions from Landsat and MODIS data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 161, Issue , 2015, Pages 12-26

  Guerschman, Juan P ^a   Scarth, Peter F ^b,d   McVicar, Tim R ^a,c   Renzullo, Luigi J ^a   Malthus, Tim J ^a   Stewart, Jane B ^e   Rickards, Jasmine E ^e   Trevithick, Rebecca ^b,d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science   (Australia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^e NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Fractional cover; Ground cover; Landsat; MODIS; Non photosynthetic vegetation; Photosynthetic vegetation; Soil; Spectral unmixing

Indexed keywords

COLOR; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MOISTURE; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

AUSTRALIA; FRACTIONAL COVER; GROUND COVERS; LANDSAT; MODIS; NON-PHOTOSYNTHETIC VEGETATION; SPECTRAL UNMIXING;

SOILS;

BARE SOIL; CALIBRATION; GROUND COVER; HETEROGENEITY; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDSAT; MODIS; NADIR; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL COLOR; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

AUSTRALIA;

NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS;

EID: 85027951768     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.01.021     Document Type: Article

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