Use of semi-empirical and radiative transfer models to estimate biophysical parameters in a sparse canopy forest

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4879, Issue , 2002, Pages 133-144

  Boschetti, Mirco ^a   Colombo, Roberto ^b   Michele, Meroni ^c   Busetto, Lorenzo ^b   Panigada, Cinzia ^b   Brivio, Pietro Alessandro ^a   Marino, Carlo Maria ^b   Miller, John R ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hyperspectral; LAI; Radiative transfer model; Semiempirical model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INFRARED IMAGING; INFRARED RADIATION; RADIOMETERS; VEGETATION;

HYPERSPECTRAL; LEAF AREA INDEX; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SEMI-EMPIRICAL MODEL; SPARSE CANOPY FOREST;

REMOTE SENSING;

FOREST CANOPY; FORESTRY; INFRARED RADIATION; PLANTS; SIMULATION;

EID: 0038193953     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.463081     Document Type: Conference Paper

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