Application of imaging spectroscopy to mapping canopy nitrogen in the forest of the central Appalachian mountains using hyperion and AVIRIS

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue , 2003, Pages 1347-1354

  Townsend, Philip A ^a   Foster, Jane R ^a   Chastain, Robert A ^a   Currie, William S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne visible infrared imaging spectrometer (AVIRIS); Appalachian mountains; Canopy nitrogen concentration; Hyperion; Oak forests

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; HARDWOODS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NITROGEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

AIRBORNE VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING SPECTROMETER; APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS; CANOPY NITROGEN CONCENTRATION; EARTH OBSERVING ONE HYPERION; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY;

REMOTE SENSING;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; FOLIAR ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; HARDWOODS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NITROGEN; QUERCUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 0042382985     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.813205     Document Type: Article

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