Using lidar and effective LAI data to evaluate IKONOS and Landsat 7 ETM+ vegetation cover estimates in a ponderosa pine forest

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 14-26

  Chen, Xuexia ^a,d   Vierling, Lee ^a   Rowell, Eric ^a,b   DeFelice, Thomas ^c  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Software Horizons Inc   (United States)

^c EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

^d RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective LAI; Endmembers; EVI; IKONOS; Landsat 7 ETM+; Lidar; Linear spectral mixture analysis; Monodominant forest; NDVI; Pinus ponderosa

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FORESTRY; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTODETECTORS; SATELLITES; SCANNING; SOILS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX (EVI); LIDAR DATA; LIGHT DETECTION; VEGETATION COVERAGES;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIDAR; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BLACK HILLS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 2342519518     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2003.11.003     Document Type: Article

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