Nonlinear spectral mixture effects for photosynthetic/non-photosynthetic vegetation cover estimates of typical desert vegetation in western China

• Cuicui Ji ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cuicui Ji, Xiaosong Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7764-6422

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• Yonghong Jia ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

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• Zhihai Gao ,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institute of Forest Resources Information Technique, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China

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• Huaidong Wei ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Desertification and Aeolian Sand Disaster Combating, Gansu Desert Control Research Institute, Lanzhou, Gansu

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• Xiaosong Li

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cuicui Ji, Xiaosong Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lixs@radi.ac.cn

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6048-1577

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