Indicatrices of the earth's surface reflection from Landsat MSS data

H Okayama1, I Ogura

  • 1Chiba University, Institute of Color Technology, Division of Remote Sensing Image Processing, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Chiba-shi 260, Japan.

Applied Optics
|November 15, 1983
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