Spatial validation of the Collection 4 MODIS LAI product in Eastern Amazonia

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2526-2534

  Aragão, Luiz Eduardo O C ^a,b   Shimabukuro, Yosio Edemir ^a,d   Espírito Santo, Fernando D B ^a   Williams, Mathew ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d INPE ^*

Author keywords

Amazonia; Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+); Large Scale Biosphere Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA); Leaf area index (LAI); Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS; TABLE LOOKUP; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

AMAZONIA; ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPER PLUS (ETM+); LARGE SCALE BIOSPHERE- ATMOSPHERE EXPERIMENTS IN AMAZONIA; LEAF AREA INDEX (LAI); MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS);

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 24944589469     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.856632     Document Type: Conference Paper

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