Comparison of regression and geostatistical methods for mapping Leaf Area Index (LAI) with Landsat ETM+ data over a boreal forest

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-61

  Berterretche, Mercedes ^a   Hudak, Andrew T ^b   Cohen, Warren B ^c   Maiersperger, Thomas K ^a   Gower, Stith T ^d   Dungan, Jennifer ^e  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional simulation; Kriging; Reduced major axis regression

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ERRORS; GEOLOGY; GROWTH KINETICS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GEOSTATISTICAL METHODS; LEAF AREA INDEX (LAI); SEQUENTIAL GAUSSIAN CONDITIONAL SIMULATION (SGCS);

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOSTATISTICS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LEAF AREA INDEX; MAPPING METHOD; REMOTE SENSING;

FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 18144413151     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2005.01.014     Document Type: Article

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