Invertible Canopy Reflectance Modeling of Vegetation Structure in Semiarid Woodland

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 809-825

  Franklin, Janet ^a   Strahler, Alan H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Biophysical remote sensing; discrete object modeling; Landsat Thematic Mapper; savanna; West Africa

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING -- MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS;

DISCRETE OBJECT MODELING; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LI-STRAHLER CANOPY RELECTANCE MODEL; MODEL INVERSION; VEGETATION MAPPING;

MAPS AND MAPPING;

EID: 0024104834     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.7712     Document Type: Article

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