The effect of spatial resolution on the accuracy of leaf area index estimation for a forest planted in the desert transition zone

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 416-428

  Sprintsin, Michael ^a   Karnieli, Arnon ^a   Berliner, Pedro ^a   Rotenberg, Eyal ^b   Yakir, Dan ^b   Cohen, Shabtai ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dry lands forestry; IKONOS; LAI; MODIS; NDVI; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SENSORS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

FRACTIONAL VEGETATION COVER (FVC); SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

FORESTRY;

DESERT; DRY FOREST; ESTIMATION METHOD; IKONOS; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODIS; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRANSITION ZONE;

FORESTRY; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 34347271920     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.01.020     Document Type: Article

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