Inversion of a forest reflectance model to estimate structural canopy variables from hyperspectral remote sensing data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 281-294

  Schlerf, Martin ^a   Atzberger, Clement ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Forest reflectance model; Imaging spectrometry; LAI; Model inversion; Neural network; Structural canopy variables

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPECTROMETRY;

FOREST REFLECTANCE MODEL; IMAGING SPECTROMETRY; LAI; MODEL INVERSION; STRUCTURAL CANOPY VARIABLES;

REMOTE SENSING;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CANOPY REFLECTANCE; REMOTE SENSING;

FORESTRY;

PICEA ABIES;

EID: 31344449225     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2005.10.006     Document Type: Article

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