View angle effects on relationships between MISR vegetation indices and leaf area index in a recently burned ponderosa pine forest

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 322-333

  Pocewicz, Amy ^a   Vierling, Lee A ^a   Lentile, Leigh B ^a   Smith, Rachel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; EVI; LAI; Landsat; MISR; Mixed effects models; Multi angle remote sensing; NDVI; Pinus ponderosa; RSR; Theil Sen regression

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; RADIOMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

LAI; LANDSATS; MISR; MIXED EFFECTS MODELS; MULTI ANGLE REMOTE SENSING; NDVI; THEIL-SEN REGRESSION;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; FOREST CANOPY; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LEAF AREA INDEX; NADIR; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION INDEX;

FORESTRY; PINUS PONDEROSA; PLANTS; RADIOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS;

BLACK HILLS; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 33846931317     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.06.019     Document Type: Article

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