Investigation of directional reflectance in boreal forests with an improved four-scale model and airborne POLDER data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 3 I, 1999, Pages 1396-1414

  Leblanc, Sylvain G ^a   Bicheron, Patrice ^a   Chen, Jing M ^a   Leroy, Marc ^a   Cihlar, Josef ^a  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; HEAT RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (BRDF);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032658232     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.763304     Document Type: Article

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