Comparison of simulated hyperspectral HyspIRI and multispectral Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 imagery for multi-seasonal, regional land-cover mapping

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 200, Issue , 2017, Pages 311-325

  Clark, Matthew L ^a  

^a SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hyperspectral satellite; HyspIRI; Imaging spectroscopy; Land cover and land use; Landsat 8; MESMA; Multi seasonal; Multispectral; Random Forests; Sentinel 2

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028023993     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.08.028     Document Type: Article

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