The importance of measurement errors for deriving accurate reference leaf area index maps for validation of moderate-resolution satellite LAI products

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1866-1870

  Huang, Dong ^a   Yang, Wenze ^a   Tan, Bin ^a   Rautiainen, Miina ^b   Zhang, Ping ^a   Hu, Jiannan ^a   Shabanov, Nikolay V ^a   Linder, Sune ^c   Knyazikhin, Yuri ^a   Myneni, Ranga B ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Leaf area index (LAI); Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); Validation of satellite biophysical products

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

LEAF AREA INDEX (LAI); MODERATE RESOLUTION-IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS); VALIDATION OF SATELLITE BIOPHYSICAL PRODUCTS;

MEASUREMENT ERRORS;

EID: 33746373123     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.876025     Document Type: Article

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