Generating vegetation leaf area index Earth system data record from multiple sensors. Part 2: Implementation, analysis and validation

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4318-4332

  Ganguly, Sangram ^a   Samanta, Arindam ^a   Schull, Mitchell A ^a   Shabanov, Nikolay V ^b   Milesi, Cristina ^c   Nemani, Ramakrishna R ^c   Knyazikhin, Yuri ^a   Myneni, Ranga B ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; AVHRR LAI; Climate data; CYCLOPES; Data uncertainties; Leaf area index; Long term data record; MODIS LAI; Radiative transfer; Recollision probability; Scaling; Single scattering albedo; Spectral invariants; Validation

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; PLANT LIFE EXTENSION; SENSOR NETWORKS;

ACCURACY; AVHRR LAI; CLIMATE DATA; CYCLOPES; DATA UNCERTAINTIES; LEAF AREA INDEX; LONG TERM DATA RECORD; MODIS LAI; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RECOLLISION PROBABILITY; SCALING; SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO; SPECTRAL INVARIANTS; VALIDATION;

VEGETATION;

ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODEL VALIDATION; MODIS; NDVI; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; VEGETATION;

EID: 53849144968     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.07.013     Document Type: Article

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