View zenith angle effects on the forest information content of three spectral indices

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 139-158

  Gemmell, Fraser ^a   McDonald, Adrian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RAY TRACING; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTROMETRY; VEGETATION;

ADVANCED SOLID-STATE ARRAY SPECTROMETRY (ASAS); FACTORIAL ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; LEAF-AREA INDEX (LAI);

REMOTE SENSING;

FOREST INVENTORY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION INDEX; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 0034012380     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(99)00086-3     Document Type: Article

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