Measuring fractional cover and leaf area index in arid ecosystems: Digital camera, radiation transmittance, and laser altimetry methods

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-57

  White, Michael A ^a   Asner, Gregory P ^b   Nemani, Ramakrishna R ^a   Privette, Jeff L ^c   Running, Steven W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; VEGETATION;

DIGITAL CAMERAS; LASER ALTIMETRY; LEAF AREA INDEX (LAI);

REMOTE SENSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; MONITORING SYSTEM; REMOTE SENSING; SHRUB; VEGETATION COVER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034307118     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(00)00119-X     Document Type: Article

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