Four-scale linear model for anisotropic reflectance (FLAIR) for plant canopies - Part I: Model description and partial validation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1072-1083

  Peter White, H ^a   Miller, John R ^a   Chen, Jing M ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bidirectional reflectance distribution; Mathematical models; Model inversion; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; REFLECTION; VEGETATION;

FOUR-SCALE LINEAR MODEL FOR AN ISOTROPIC REFLECTANCE; LEAF AREA INDEX;

REMOTE SENSING;

FOREST CANOPY;

EID: 0035331494     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.921425     Document Type: Article

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