The effect of soil anisotropy on the radiance field emerging from vegetation canopies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 797-800

  Pinty, Bernard ^a   Verstraete, Michel M ^a   Gobron, Nadine ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOILS;

VEGETATION CANOPIES; INTERPRETATION OF DATA; PAPER DOCUMENTS; RADIATION TRANSFER EQUATIONS; RADIATION TRANSFER MODEL; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SOIL ANISOTROPY; VEGETATION CANOPY;

SOLAR RADIATION; VEGETATION;

RADIANCE FIELD; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SOIL ANISOTROPY; SOIL BRIGHTNESS; VEGETATION CANOPY;

EID: 0032520568     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00383     Document Type: Article

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