The cause of the hot spot in vegetation canopies and soils: Shadow-hiding versus coherent backscatter

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-68

  Hapke, Bruce ^a   DiMucci, Dominick ^b   Nelson, Robert ^b   Smythe, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; REFLECTOMETERS; SOILS;

COHERENT BACKSCATTER; HOT SPOT; REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENT; SHADOW HIDING; VEGETATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

BACKSCATTER; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; CANOPY; HOT SPOT; REFLECTANCE PROPERTIES; REMOTE SENSING; SHADOW HIDING; SOIL; SOIL REFLECTANCE; VEGETATION CANOPY;

EID: 0030251253     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-4257(95)00257-X     Document Type: Article

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