An analytical hybrid GORT model for bidirectional reflectance over discontinuous plant canopies

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 2 II, 1999, Pages 987-999

  Ni, Wenge ^a   Li, Xiaowen ^a   Woodcock, Curtis E ^a   Caetano, Mario R ^a   Strahler, Alan H ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical gort brdf model; Discontinuous plant canopies

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (BRDF); RADIATIVE TRANSFER (RT);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033099227     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.752217     Document Type: Article

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