Determination of needle area indices of coniferous forest canopies in the NOPEX region by ground-based optical measurements and satellite images

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 98-99, Issue , 1999, Pages 449-462

  Nilson, T ^a   Anniste, J ^b   Lang, M ^a,c   Praks, J ^d  

^a TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

^b Iva 12 EE0026   (Estonia)

^c ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forest canopies; Needle area index; Radiation modelling; Satellite images

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST CANOPY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL METHOD; RESEARCH PROGRAM; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 0033621443     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(99)00115-X     Document Type: Article

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