Retrieval of canopy biophysical variables from bidirectional reflectance using prior information to solve the ill-posed inverse problem

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-15

  Combal, Bruno ^a   Baret, F ^a   Weiss, M ^a   Trubuil, A ^b   Mace D ^b   Pragnere A ^a   Myneni, R ^c   Knyazikhin, Y ^c   Wang, L ^d  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SMRI   (China)

Author keywords

Inverse problem; Lookup table; Neural network; Prior information; Quasi Newton

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; REMOTE SENSING;

BIOPHYSICAL VARIABLES;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CANOPY; INVERSE PROBLEM; REFLECTANCE; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0037211652     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00035-4     Document Type: Article

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