Remote Sensing Technology and Application, Volume. 40, Issue 4, 956(2025)

Evaluating the Consistency of Three Tasseled Cap Transformation Algorithms for Landsat 8 Multispectral Data

REN Mengjie1,2 and XU Hanqiu1,2、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1College of Environment and Safety Engineering, Institute of Remote Sensing Information Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China
  • 2Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Monitoring and Assessment of Soil Erosion and Disaster Prevention, Fuzhou 350116, China
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    Paper Information

    Received: Apr. 7, 2024

    Accepted: Aug. 26, 2025

    Published Online: Aug. 26, 2025

    The Author Email: XU Hanqiu (hxu@fzu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.11873/j.issn.1004-0323.2025.4.0956

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