Monitoring vegetation systems in the great plains with erts
- Title
- Monitoring vegetation systems in the great plains with erts
- Creator(s)
- Deering, D. W.
- Rouse, J. W.
- Haas, Randall
- Schell, J.A.
- Date
- 1974
- Is Part Of
- NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center 3rd ERTS-1 Symposium
- Pages
- 309-317
- Language
- eng
- Abstract
- The Great Plains Corridor rangeland project being conducted at Texas A&M University utilizes natural vegetation systems as phenological indicators of seasonal development and climatic effects upon regional growth conditions. A method has been developed for quantitative measurement of vegetation conditions over broad regions using ERTS-1 MSS data. Radiance values recorded in ERTS-1 spectral bands 5 and 7, corrected for sun angle, are used to compute a band ratio parameter which is shown to be correlated with aboveground green biomass on rangelands.
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