Sensitivity of ground-based remote sensing estimates of wheat chlorophyll content to variation in soil reflectance

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1715-1723

  Eitel, J U H ^a   Long, D S ^b   Gessler, P E ^a   Hunt Jr , E R ^c   Brown, D J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b Box 370   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chl, Chlorophyll a and b content; GESAVI, Generalized soil adjusted vegetation index; LAI, Leaf area index; MCARI, Modified chlorophyll absorption in reflective index; MTV2, Second modified triangular vegetation index; NDRE, Normalized difference red edge index; NDVI, Normalized difference vegetation index; OSAVI, Optimized soil adjusted vegetation index; SAVI, Soil adjusted vegetation index; SI Spectral index; TCARI, Transformed chlorophyll absorption in reflectance index; TSAVI, Transformed soil adjusted vegetation index

Indexed keywords

CHL, CHLOROPHYLL A AND B CONTENT; GESAVI, GENERALIZED SOIL ADJUSTED VEGETATION INDEX; LAI, LEAF AREA INDEX; MCARI, MODIFIED CHLOROPHYLL ABSORPTION IN REFLECTIVE INDEX; MTV2, SECOND MODIFIED TRIANGULAR VEGETATION INDEX; NDRE, NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE RED EDGE INDEX; NDVI, NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; OSAVI, OPTIMIZED SOIL ADJUSTED VEGETATION INDEX; SAVI, SOIL ADJUSTED VEGETATION INDEX; SI SPECTRAL INDEX; TCARI, TRANSFORMED CHLOROPHYLL ABSORPTION IN REFLECTANCE INDEX; TSAVI, TRANSFORMED SOIL ADJUSTED VEGETATION INDEX;

ABSORPTION; CHLOROPHYLL; CROPS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PORPHYRINS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

VEGETATION;

CANOPY REFLECTANCE; CHLOROPHYLL; LEAF AREA INDEX; NDVI; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROPERTY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WHEAT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 69949130816     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2008.0288     Document Type: Article

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