Reduced simple ratio better than NDVI for estimating LAI in Finnish pine and spruce stands

Silva Fennica

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-14

  Stenberg, Pauline ^a   Rautiainen, Miina ^a   Manninen, Terhikki ^b   Voipio, Pekka ^c   Smolander, Heikki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Boreal coniferous forests; Landsat ETM; Leaf Area Index; Spectral vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

SIMPLE RATIO (SR); VEGETATION INDEX;

VEGETATION;

BOREAL FOREST; ESTIMATION METHOD; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LEAF AREA INDEX; NDVI;

PICEA; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 1842588600     PISSN: 00375330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14214/sf.431     Document Type: Article

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