Remote Sensing of Solar Radiation Absorbed and Reflected by Vegetated Land Surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 302-314

  Myneni, Ranga B ^a   Asrar, Ghassem ^b   Tanré, Didier ^c   Choudhury, Bhaskar J ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^c Biospheric Sciences Branch NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; PROBABILITY - RANDOM PROCESSES; RADIOMETERS; SOILS; SPECTROSCOPY, ABSORPTION;

DESERT VEGETATION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PREDICTIVE MODELS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; SURFACE ALBEDO;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0026837740     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.134080     Document Type: Article

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