Spectral and chemical analysis of tropical forests: Scaling from leaf to canopy levels

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3958-3970

  Asner, Gregory P ^a   Martin, Roberta E ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy chemistry; Canopy structure; Hyperspectral; Imaging spectroscopy; Partial least squares; Radiative transfer; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CHLOROPHYLL; CORRELATION METHODS; CURVE FITTING; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; GEOPHYSICS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NITROGEN; NONMETALS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PHOSPHORUS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PORPHYRINS; RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTION; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; TROPICS;

AIRBORNE IMAGING; ANALYTICAL METHODS; CANOPY CHEMISTRY; CANOPY RADIATIVE TRANSFER; CANOPY REFLECTANCE; CANOPY REFLECTANCE SPECTRA; CANOPY STRUCTURE; CANOPY STRUCTURES; CHEMICAL DATA; CHEMICAL-; FOLIAR CHEMISTRY; FOLIAR NUTRIENTS; HYPERSPECTRAL; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; LEAF AREA INDEX; LEAF LEVEL; LEAF NITROGEN; LEAF PROPERTIES; MODELING RESULTS; MULTIPLE-SCATTERING; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES ANALYSIS; SPECIFIC LEAF AREA; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCES; STRUCTURAL VARIABILITY; TREE CROWNS; TROPICAL FOREST; TROPICAL FORESTS;

FORESTRY;

AIRBORNE SENSING; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CAROTENOID; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST CANOPY; LEAF AREA INDEX; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; SPECTROSCOPY; TROPICAL FOREST; WATER CONTENT;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CHLOROPHYLLS; DATA PROCESSING; FORESTRY; FORESTS; HUMIDITY; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; NONMETALS; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; PIGMENT; RADIATION; SCATTERING; SPECTROMETERS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 50849144917     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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