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Remote Sens. 2012, 4, 2619-2634; doi:10.3390/rs4092619 OPEN ACCESS Remote Sensing ISSN 2072-4292 /journal/remotesensing Article Remote Sensing of Fractional Green Vegetation Cover Using Spatially-Interpolated Endmembers Brian Johnson *, Ryutaro Tateishi and Toshiyuki Kobayashi Center for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS), Chiba University, 1-33 Yayo-icho, Inage, Chiba 263-8522, Japan; E-Mails: tateishi@faculty.chiba-u.jp (R.T.); kobayashit@graduate.chiba-u.jp (T.K.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: bjohns53@; Tel.: +81-43-290-3850; Fax: +81-43-290-3857. Received: 27 July 2012; in revised form: 3 September 2012 / Accepted: 4 September 2012 / Published: 12 September 2012 Abstract: Fractional green vegetation cover (FVC) is a useful parameter for many environmental and climate-related applications. A common approach for estimating FVC involves the linear unmixing of two spectral endmembers in a remote sensing image; bare soil and green vegetation. The spectral properties of these two endmembers are typically determined based on field measurements, estimated using additional data sources (e.g., soil databases or land cover maps), or extracted directly from the imagery. Most FVC estimation approaches do not consider that the spectral properties of endmembers may vary across space. However, due to local differences in climate, soil type, vegetation species, etc., the spectral characteristics of soil and green vegetation may exhibit positive spa