Coupling forest canopy and understory reflectance in the Arctic latitudes of Finland

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 332-343

  Rautiainen, Miina ^a   Suomalainen, Juha ^b   Mõttus, Matti ^a   Stenberg, Pauline ^c   Voipio, Pekka ^d   Peltoniemi, Jouni ^b   Manninen, Terhikki ^e  

^a TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

^b FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Goniospectrometry; Leaf area index; Recollision probability; Understory BRDF

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES; FIELD GONIOSPECTROMETRY; GONIOSPECTROMETRY;

FORESTRY;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; FOREST CANOPY; LEAF AREA INDEX; LICHEN; REMOTE SENSING; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 34548182081     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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