Analysis of the MISR LAI/FPAR product for spatial and temporal coverage, accuracy and consistency

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 334-347

  Hu, Jiannan ^a   Su, Yin ^a   Tan, Bin ^a   Huang, Dong ^a   Yang, Wenze ^a   Schull, Mitchell ^a   Bull, Michael A ^b   Martonchik, John V ^b   Diner, David J ^b   Knyazikhin, Yuri ^a   Myneni, Ranga B ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fraction of photosynthetically active radiation absorved by vegetation; Leaf area index; MISR; Satellite product

Indexed keywords

ENERGY ABSORPTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADIOMETERS; VEGETATION;

FRACTION OF PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION ABSORVED BY VEGETATION; GLOBAL IMAGERY; LEAF AREA INDEXES; MULTI ANGLE IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MISR); SATELLITE PRODUCTS; SPECTRAL BANDS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AEROSOL; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALGORITHM; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODIS; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; RADAR IMAGERY; RADIOMETER; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; VEGETATION; VEGETATION COVER;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; PLANTS; RADIOMETRY;

AVIGNON; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR; VAUCLUSE; WESTERN EUROPE;

POACEAE;

EID: 33846918855     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.06.020     Document Type: Article

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