Retrieval of tropical forest structure characteristics from bi-directional reflectance of SPOT images

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 362-375

  De Wasseige, Carlos ^a   Defourny, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FORESTRY; MONITORING; VEGETATION;

STANDARD DEVIATIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; GEOSTATISTICS; SPOT; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 0036889270     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00033-0     Document Type: Article

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