NASA NTRS · 19920059663
Upscale integration of normalized difference vegetation index - The problem of spatial heterogeneity
Abstract
An analysis is conducted of the correspondence between the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) calculated from average reflectances, or M(NDVI), and the I(NDVI) that is integrated from individual NDVIs, by simulating AVHRR data from high spatial resolution SPOT 1 radiometer and Landsat TM data. The West African and French sites analyzed at 300-1000 m scale show a strong correlation between the two types of index; the relationship is almost perfectly linear, with a slope that is somewhat dependent on vegetation cover. Effecting the scale change using M(NDVI) instead of I(NDVI) does not introduce significant errors.
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Aman, Angora, Randriamanantena, Heremino P., Podaire, Alain, Frouin, Robert. 1992-03-01. Upscale integration of normalized difference vegetation index - The problem of spatial heterogeneity. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19920059663
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