NEON: The first continental-scale ecological observatory with airborne remote sensing of vegetation canopy biochemistry and structure

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Kampe, Thomas U ^a   Johnson, Brian R ^a   Kuester, Michele A ^a   Keller, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY NETWORK   (United States)

Author keywords

ecology; imaging spectroscopy; Remote sensing; vegetation structure; waveform LiDAR

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; LAND USE; NEON; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL RADAR; SPECTROMETERS; VEGETATION;

AIRBORNE OBSERVATIONS; AIRBORNE REMOTE SENSING; ECOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WAVEFORM LIDARS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 77958003197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3361375     Document Type: Article

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