Variability in leaf and litter optical properties: Implications for BRDF model inversions using AVHRR, MODIS, and MISR

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 243-257

  Asner, Gregory P ^a   Wessman, Carol A ^a   Schimel, David S ^b   Archer, Steve ^c  

^a Pop Organismic Biol Univ C ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE SENSORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLANTS (BOTANY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER (AHVRR) SENSORS; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (BRDF); CANOPY RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; CANOPY SENESCENCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS;

REMOTE SENSING;

LEAF LITTER; MODEL; OPTICAL PROPERTY;

EID: 0032010666     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(97)00138-7     Document Type: Article

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