Inversion methods for physically-based models

Remote Sensing Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 381-439

  Kimes, D S ^a   Knyazikhin, Y ^b   Privette, J L ^a   Abuelgasim, A A ^a   Gao, F ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BRDF; Directional relectance; FPAR; Inversion; LAI; Neural network; Optimization; Physically based models; Radiant transfer; Table look up; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SENSORS; VEGETATION;

PHYSICALLY-BASED MODELS;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA INVERSION; MODELING; REFLECTANCE; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 0034261026     PISSN: 02757257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02757250009532396     Document Type: Article

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