A directional multispectral forest reflectance model

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 244-252

  Kuusk, Andres ^a   Nilson, Tiit ^a  

^a TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HEAT TRANSFER; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOLAR RADIATION; VEGETATION;

CANOPY REFLECTANCE MODEL; LEAF OPTICS MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL;

REMOTE SENSING;

CANOPY REFLECTANCE; FOREST; MODELING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTANCE;

EID: 0034012241     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(99)00111-X     Document Type: Article

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