The effect of solar illumination angle and sensor view angle on observed patterns of spatial structure in tallgrass prairie

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 154-165

  Goodin, Douglas G ^a   Gao, Jincheng ^a   Henebry, Geoffrey M ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Grasslands; Reflectance anisotropy; Spatial structure

Indexed keywords

RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SENSORS; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTROMETERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CANOPY; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; GRASSLANDS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; REFLECTANCE ANISOTROPY; SENSOR VIEW ANGLE; SOLAR ILLUMINATION ANGLE; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TALLGRASS PRAIRIE;

VEGETATION;

EID: 1242331307     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.815674     Document Type: Article

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