Estimation of green grass/herb biomass from airborne hyperspectral imagery using spectral indices and partial least squares regression

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 414-424

  Cho, Moses Azong ^a,b   Skidmore, Andrew ^a,b   Corsi, Fabio ^a   van Wieren, Sipke E ^b   Sobhan, Istiak ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Continuum removal; Green grass herb biomass; HyMap; NDVI; Partial least squares regression; Red edge position

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; BIOMASS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NDVI; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

ABRUZZI; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MAJELLA NATIONAL PARK; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 36248949001     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2007.02.001     Document Type: Article

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