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Assessment of regional biomass-soil relationships using vegetation indexes

Journal Article · · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/36.73676· OSTI ID:5757151
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  1. Lab. of Applications of Remote Sensing, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (US)

This paper reports on data from the NOAA-10 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) collected over the midwestern United States for the 1987 and 1988 growing seasons. A Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) transformation was performed using the two optical bands of the sensor (0.58-0.68 {mu}m and 0.72-1.10 {mu}m). The NDVI is related to the amount of active photosynthetic biomass present on the ground. Samples of NDVI values over 45 fields representing 8 soil associations throughout the State of Indiana were collected to assess the effect of soil conditions and acquisition data on the spectral response of the vegetation, as shown by the NDVI's.

Sponsoring Organization:
NASA; National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI ID:
5757151
Journal Information:
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States) Vol. 29:2; ISSN 0196-2892; ISSN IGRSD
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English