Physical interpretation of the correlation between multi-angle spectral data and canopy height

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 18, 2007, Pages

  Schull, M A ^a   Ganguly, S ^a   Samanta, Arindam ^a   Huang, D ^b   Shabanov, N V ^a   Jenkins, Julian P ^c   Chiu, J C ^d   Marshak, Alexander ^e   Blair, James B ^e   Myneni, R B ^a   Knyazikhin, Y ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LINEAR REGRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETRY; VEGETATION;

AIRBORNE LASER VEGETATION IMAGING SENSOR; AIRBORNE MULTI-ANGLE IMAGING SPECTROMETER; MULTIVARIATE LINEAR REGRESSION MODEL;

GEOPHYSICS;

AIRBORNE SENSING; AIRBORNE SENSOR; CANOPY; HEIGHT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 36549044454     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031143     Document Type: Article

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