Numerical experiments on the spatial scaling of land surface albedo and leaf area index

Remote Sensing Reviews

Volumn 19, Issue 1-4, 2000, Pages 225-242

  Liang, Shunlin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; Directional reflectance; Leaf area index; Spatial scaling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; SATELLITES;

LAND SURFACE ALBEDOS;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALBEDO; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; LAND SURFACE; LEAF AREA INDEX; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 0034441446     PISSN: 02757257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02757250009532420     Document Type: Article

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