Estimating fractional vegetation cover and the vegetation index of bare soil and highly dense vegetation with a physically based method

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 58, Issue , 2017, Pages 168-176

  Song, Wanjuan ^a   Mu, Xihan ^a   Ruan, Gaiyan ^a   Gao, Zhan ^a   Li, Linyuan ^a   Yan, Guangjian ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fractional vegetation cover (FVC); Linear mixture model; NDVI of bare soil (NDVIs); NDVI of highly dense vegetation (NDVIv); Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BARE SOIL; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; FOREST; GRASSLAND; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODELING; MODIS; NDVI; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 85041426848     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2017.01.015     Document Type: Article

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