A generalizable method for remote sensing of canopy nitrogen across a wide range of forest ecosystems

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3511-3519

  Martin, M E ^a   Plourde, L C ^b   Ollinger, S V ^b   Smith, M L ^c   McNeil, B E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

AVIRIS; Foliar nitrogen; Hyperion; Hyperspectral; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CALIBRATION; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DATA PROCESSING; DETECTORS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; FORECASTING; NASA; NITROGEN; NONMETALS; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOILS; SPACE OPTICS;

AIR-BORNE SENSORS; AIRBORNE VISIBLE/INFRARED IMAGING SPECTROMETER (AVIRIS); AUSTRALIA; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; CALIBRATION METHODS; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CROSS-VALIDATION (CV); DATA SETS; DETECTION ALGORITHMS; DETECTION METHODS; FIELD DATA; FIELD MEASUREMENTS; FOLIAR N; FOLIAR NITROGEN; FOREST ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST SOILS; HYPERION (CO); HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; IMAGE DATA; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; IN PLANTS; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); INSECT DEFOLIATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LOCAL FIELDS; MEAN FIELDS; MEASURED VALUES; NITROGEN CONCENTRATIONS; NORTH AMERICA; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PROCESSING METHODS; SITE SPECIFIC; STUDY SITES; WIDE-RANGE; WIDER RANGE;

FORESTRY;

AIRBORNE SENSING; AVIRIS; CALIBRATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DETECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HYPERION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; REMOTE SENSING;

CONCENTRATION; DATA PROCESSING; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FORESTRY; GEOCHEMISTRY; NONMETALS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; NORTH AMERICA;

HEXAPODA; HYPERION;

EID: 48349099850     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.04.008     Document Type: Article

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