ABSTRACT
ACORN Atmospheric CORrection Now AGB Aboveground Biomass AOI Area of interest APAR Absorbed photosynthetic active radiation ATREM ATmospheric REMoval BR Band ratio BV Brightness value CALMIT Center for Advanced Land Management Information
Technologies DEM Digital elevation model DOQQ Digital orthophoto quarter quadrangles EM Electromagnetic EPA Environmental Protection Agency EVI Enhanced Vegetation Index FLAASH Fast line-of-sight atmospheric analysis of spectral
hypercubes FT Fourier transform GCP Ground control point GIS Geographic information systems
GPS Global positioning system ISODATA Iterative self-organizing data analysis LAI Leaf Area Index MSS Multispectral scanner NDVI Normalized Di§erence Vegetation Index NIR Near-infrared OIF Optimum Index Factor OLI Operational land imager PC Principal component PCA Principal component analysis RGB Red, green, blue SDSS Spatial decision support systems SR Simple ratio TbM Ÿree-band Model TM Ÿematic mapper USGS United States Geological Survey UTM Universal Transverse Mercator VBV Vegetation biophysical variable VI Vegetation Index VNIR Visible near-infrared WDRVI Wide Dynamic Range Vegetation Index
Acronyms and De¦nitions .................................................................................................................197 9.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................198 9.2 Image Quality Assessment: Basic Statistics and Histogram Analysis ............................198
