Geometric-Optical Bidirectional Reflectance Modeling of the Discrete Crown Vegetation Canopy: Effect of Crown Shape and Mutual Shadowing

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 276-292

  Li, Xiaowen ^a   Strahler, Alan H ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bidirectional reflectance distribution function; plant canopy; reflectance modeling; vegetation reflectance

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS - MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICS - GEOMETRICAL;

AZIMUTHAL VARIATION; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; DISCRETE CROWN VEGETATION CANOPY; GEOMETRIC-OPTICAL REFLECTANCE MODELING; ILLUMINATION SHADOWS; VEGETATION REFLECTANCE;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0026836865     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.134078     Document Type: Article

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