LAI and chlorophyll estimation for a heterogeneous grassland using hyperspectral measurements

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 409-426

  Darvishzadeh, Roshanak ^a   Skidmore, Andrew ^a   Schlerf, Martin ^a   Atzberger, Clement ^b   Corsi, Fabio ^a   Cho, Moses ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll; Grassland; Hyperspectral remote sensing; Leaf area index; Partial least squares regression

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CIVIL AVIATION; CURVE FITTING; ESTIMATION; FOOD PROCESSING; FORESTRY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LINEAR REGRESSION; PORPHYRINS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

(P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; CANOPY CHLOROPHYLL; CANOPY SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; HYPER-SPECTRAL; IN-SITU MEASUREMENTS; LEAF AREA INDEX (LIA); LEAF CHLOROPHYLL; MULTIVARIATE CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; NARROW BAND VEGETATION INDICES; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION (PLSR); RED EDGE INFLECTION POINT (RERP); SPECTRAL MEASUREMENTS; SPECTRO RADIOMETERS; STEPWISE MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION (SMLR); UNIVARIATE;

MEASUREMENTS;

CALIBRATION; CANOPY; CHLOROPHYLL; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRASS; GRASSLAND; HETEROGENEITY; LEAF AREA INDEX; MEASUREMENT METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

CHLOROPHYLLS; FOREST CANOPY; GRASS LANDS; LEAVES; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

EID: 47249128967     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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