Estimating aboveground biomass of grassland having a high canopy cover: An exploratory analysis of in situ hyperspectral data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 6497-6517

  Chen, Jin ^a,c   Gu, Song ^b   Shen, Miaogen ^a   Tang, Yanhong ^c   Matsushita, Bunkei ^d  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; INFRARED DEVICES; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; REFLECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

FIRST ORDER DERIVATIVES; HYPERSPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; NARROW BAND VEGETATION INDICES; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PARTIAL LEAST-SQUARES REGRESSION; QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU; RATIO VEGETATION INDICES;

VEGETATION;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRASSLAND; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NDVI; NEAR INFRARED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77449091194     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160902882496     Document Type: Article

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