Detecting Canopy Water Status Using Shortwave Infrared Reflectance Data From Polar Orbiting and Geostationary Platforms

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 271-285

  Fensholt, Rasmus ^a   Huber, Silvia ^a   Proud, Simon R ^a   Mbow, Cheikh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Canopy water status; drought monitoring; Meteosat Second Generation Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (MSG SEVIRI); normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI); shortwave infrared water stress index (SIWSI); Terra Aqua MODIS

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT MONITORING; METEOSAT SECOND GENERATIONS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SHORT WAVE INFRARED; TERRA/AQUA MODIS; WATER STATUS;

DROUGHT; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; INFRARED RADIATION; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS; VEGETATION;

WATER CONTENT;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CANOPY; DETECTION METHOD; DROUGHT; EOS; GROWING SEASON; INFRARED IMAGERY; METEOSAT; MODIS; NDVI; SATELLITE DATA; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; WATER STRESS;

EID: 77956199500     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2048744     Document Type: Article

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