Retrieval of the canopy leaf area index in the BOREAS flux tower sites using linear spectral mixture analysis

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 176-188

  Hu, Baoxin ^a,b   Miller, John R ^a   Chen, Jing M ^c   Hollinger, Allan ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

BOREAS; Leaf area index; Linear spectral mixture analysis

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ECOSYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE SENSORS; SNOW; SPECTROGRAPHS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

LEAF AREA INDEX (LAI);

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; FOREST CANOPY; LEAF AREA INDEX; REFLECTANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

BOREAS; PICEA; PICEA MARIANA; PINUS BANKSIANA;

EID: 0842306381     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2002.06.003     Document Type: Article

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