The Application of a Geometric Optical Canopy Reflectance Model to Semiarid Shrub Vegetation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 293-301

  Franklin, Janet ^a   Turner, Debra L ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ogden Environmental ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Li Strahler canopy reflectance model; semiarid shrub vegetation; sensing, digital image

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS; OPTICS - GEOMETRICAL;

LI-STRAHLER CANOPY REFLECTANCE MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEMIARID SHRUB VEGETATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0026838860     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.134079     Document Type: Article

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