Inversion of a radiative transfer model for estimating vegetation LAI and chlorophyll in a heterogeneous grassland

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2592-2604

  Darvishzadeh, Roshanak ^a   Skidmore, Andrew ^a   Schlerf, Martin ^a   Atzberger, Clement ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Canopy chlorophyll; Grassland; Hyperspectral; LAI; Leaf chlorophyll; LUT; Model inversion; Radiative transfer model

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; VEGETATION;

LEAF CHLOROPHYLL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS;

CHLOROPHYLL;

CANOPY; CHLOROPHYLL; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRASSLAND; LEAF AREA INDEX; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 41449108067     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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