@Article{CarreirasShimPere:2002:FrImDe,
               author = "Carreiras, J. M. B. and Shimabukuro, Yosio Edemir and Pereira, 
                         Jose M. C. T.",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Superior de Agronomia - Departamento de Engenharia 
                         Flrorestal - Lisboa - Portugal} and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and echnical University of Lisbon, 
                         Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Lisbon, Portugal.",
                title = "Fraction images derived from SPOT-4 VEGETATION data to assess 
                         land-cover change over the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil",
              journal = "International Journal of Remote Sensing",
                 year = "2002",
               volume = "23",
               number = "23",
                pages = "4979--4983",
                month = "Dec.",
             keywords = "VEGETA{\C{C}}{\~A}O, Mato Grosso (Estado), uso da tera, imagem 
                         fra{\c{c}}{\~a}o, land cover, Advanced Very High Resolution 
                         Radiometer (AVHRR), sensor, SPOTS satellite, Fraction image.",
             abstract = "Fraction images derived from remotely sensed data can be a good 
                         candidate for the evaluation of land-cover change, considering 
                         both regional and/or global scales (Adams et al. 1995). Among 
                         other characteristics, the VEGETATION sensor onboard the Systeme 
                         Pour L'Observation do lea Terre SPOTS) satellite (VEGETATION Users 
                         Guide 1999) provides a better imagery acquisition geometry and 
                         additional reflective bands (blue 0.43-0.47pm, red 0.61-0.68um, 
                         NIR 0.78-0.89 pm, SWIR 1.58-1.75 pm), when compared with the 
                         National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Advanced 
                         Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), which only has the red 
                         band (0.58-0.68 pm) and the NOR band (0.72-1.10um) in the 
                         reflective part of the electromagnetic spectrum. To illustrate 
                         this, composite fraction images derived from VEGETATION 
                         atmospherically corrected daily images (1.0 km x 1.0 km at nadir) 
                         from August 2000 (25 images in the following days: 1-2, 4-7, 9-12, 
                         15-16, and 19-31), using the monthly Normalized Difference 
                         Vegetation Index (NDVI) maximum value criterion (Holben 1986) were 
                         created and compared with the AVHRR composite from August 1993 
                         (Shimabukuro and Rudorff 2000), over the State of Mato Grosso 
                         (approximately 90000OkM2 ), Brazil. The spectral linear mixing 
                         model (Shimabukuro and Smith 1991) was applied with three 
                         endmembers (vegetation, soil, and shade figure 1) to produce the 
                         three corresponding fraction images.",
           copyholder = "SID/SCD",
                 issn = "0143-1161",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "e-mail comut 4244.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "13 maio 2024"
}