A dataset for the validation of reflectance models

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 889-892

  Kuusk, Andres ^a   Kuusk, Joel ^a   Lang, Mait ^a,b  

^a TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Forest reflectance; Forest structure

Indexed keywords

3-D ARCHITECTURES; AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS; DATA SETS; ESTONIA; FOREST REFLECTANCE; FOREST STRUCTURE; FOREST TEST SITES; GROUND VEGETATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS CANOPIES; IN-SITU; INDIVIDUAL TREES; REFLECTANCE MODELS; REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM; STEM BARKS; VISIBLE AND NEAR-INFRARED;

DATA PROCESSING; FORESTRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL TESTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VEGETATION;

REFLECTION;

AIRBORNE SENSING; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; FOREST CANOPY; MODEL VALIDATION; RECONSTRUCTION; REFLECTANCE;

BARK; DATA PROCESSING; FORESTRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTS; MEASUREMENT; PLANTS; REFLECTANCE; REFLECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEST METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN;

BALTIC STATES; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; JARVSELJA; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 63949084186     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.01.005     Document Type: Article

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