Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, Volume. 33, Issue 7, 1857(2013)

Modeling Continuous Scaling of NDVI Based on Fractal Theory

LUAN Hai-jun1,2、*, TIAN Qing-jiu1,2, YU Tao3, HU Xin-li3, HUANG Yan1,2, DU Ling-tong1,2, ZHAO Li-min3, WEI Xi4, HAN Jie3, ZHANG Zhou-wei5, and LI Shao-peng6
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    Scale effect was one of the very important scientific problems of remote sensing. The scale effect of quantitative remote sensing can be used to study retrievals’ relationship between different-resolution images, and its research became an effective way to confront the challenges, such as validation of quantitative remote sensing products et al. Traditional up-scaling methods cannot describe scale changing features of retrievals on entire series of scales; meanwhile, they are faced with serious parameters correction issues because of imaging parameters’ variation of different sensors, such as geometrical correction, spectral correction, etc. Utilizing single sensor image, fractal methodology was utilized to solve these problems. Taking NDVI(computed by land surface radiance) as example and based on Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) image, a scheme was proposed to model continuous scaling of retrievals. Then the experimental results indicated that: (a) For NDVI, scale effect existed, and it could be described by fractal model of continuous scaling; (2) The fractal method was suitable for validation of NDVI. All of these proved that fractal was an effective methodology of studying scaling of quantitative remote sensing.

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    LUAN Hai-jun, TIAN Qing-jiu, YU Tao, HU Xin-li, HUANG Yan, DU Ling-tong, ZHAO Li-min, WEI Xi, HAN Jie, ZHANG Zhou-wei, LI Shao-peng. Modeling Continuous Scaling of NDVI Based on Fractal Theory[J]. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, 2013, 33(7): 1857

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    Paper Information

    Received: Nov. 26, 2012

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Sep. 30, 2013

    The Author Email: Hai-jun LUAN (luanhaijun1984@yahoo.com.cn)

    DOI:10.3964/j.issn.1000-0593(2013)07-1857-06

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