Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: ET: Evapotranspiration; ETM: Enhanced Thematic Mapper; EVI: Enhanced Vegetation Index; FAO: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; LAI: Leaf Area Index; MODIS: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (it is attached to Terra a sun synchronous satellite); NDVI; Normalized Difference in Vegetation Index; SAVI...

A fully automated method uses Landsat Thematic Mapper data to map snow cover in the Sierra Nevada and make quantitative estimates of the fractional snow-covered area within each pixel. We model winter and spring reference scenes as linear mixtures of image end member spectra to produce the response variables for tree-based regression and classification models. Decision trees identify cloud cove...

Sustainable management of coastal mangrove systems requires up-to-date data on land use and land cover information. The objective of this study was to use Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) remote sensing information to provide such management data and corresponding analysis. This study showed that the degradation of Ghana’s mangroves was due primarily to ...

This paper de s c ribes a context based technique for smoothing digital thematic maps produced by multispec tral classification of Landsat Thematic Mapper data . The output of this technique i s a "maplike" product which can be directly used as input to a geographic information system.