Applicability of leaf area index products for boreal regions of Sweden

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 5619-5632

  Tagesson, Torbern ^a   Lars, Eklundh ^a   Lindroth, Anders ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

BOREAL ECOSYSTEMS; BOREAL REGIONS; FOREST TYPE; HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS LAI; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX;

RADIOMETERS;

BOREAL FOREST; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODIS; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING;

CORRELATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PLANTS; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FORSMARK; KALMAR [SWEDEN]; LAXEMAR; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; UPPSALA [SWEDEN];

EID: 70449380010     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160802695709     Document Type: Article

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