A theoretical assessment of the relation between woody canopy cover and red reflectance

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 428-439

  Yang, Jingli ^a,b   Prince, Stephen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b HUGHES STX CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE SENSORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REFLECTOMETERS; SATELLITES;

GEOMETRIC CANOPY MODELS; RED REFLECTANCE; WOODY CANOPY COVERS;

REMOTE SENSING;

CANOPY COVER; CANOPY MODEL; RED BAND REFLECTANCE; REFLECTANCE; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031436788     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(96)00111-3     Document Type: Article

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