Canopy attributes of desert grassland and transition communities derived from multiangular airborne imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 339-354

  Chopping, Mark J ^a,e   Rango, Albert ^a   Havstad, Kris M ^a   Schiebe, Frank R ^b   Ritchie, Jerry C ^c   Schmugge, Thomas J ^c   French, Andrew N ^c   Su, Lihong ^d   McKee, Lynn ^c   Davis, M Rene ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b SST Development Group Inc   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Desert grassland; Multiangular airborne imagery; Transition communities

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHTING; SPECTROMETERS; VEGETATION;

DESERT GRASSLANDS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; CANOPY; DESERT; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EID: 0038375057     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(03)00012-9     Document Type: Article

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