Remote sensing of vegetation water content from equivalent water thickness using satellite imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2514-2522

  Yilmaz, M Tugrul ^a,b   Hunt Jr , E Raymond ^a   Jackson, Thomas J ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn; Deciduous hardwood woodland; EWT; Glycine max; NDII; Normalized difference infrared index; Plant allometry; Soil Moisture Experiment 2005; Soybean; VWC; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

CROPS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION; WATER CONTENT;

CORN; DECIDUOUS HARDWOOD WOODLAND; EQUIVALENT WATER THICKNESS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE INFRARED INDEX (NDII); PLANT ALLOMETRY; ZEA MAYS;

REMOTE SENSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALLOMETRY; ASTER; DECIDUOUS TREE; LANDSAT; MAIZE; NDVI; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOYBEAN; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION COVER; WATER CONTENT;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 41249103476     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.11.014     Document Type: Article

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