Canopy spectral invariants, Part 2: Application to classification of forest types from hyperspectral data

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 736-750

  Schull, M A ^a   Knyazikhin, Y ^a   Xu, L ^a   Samanta, A ^a   Carmona, P L ^b   Lepine, L ^c   Jenkins, J P ^c   Ganguly, S ^d   Myneni, R B ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem; Hyperspectral data; Radiative transfer; Scaling; Scattering albedo; Spectral invariants; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE DATA; AIRBORNE VISIBLE/INFRARED IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; CANOPY REFLECTANCE; CANOPY SPECTRUM; CANOPY STRUCTURE; CROWN SHAPE; CUMULATIVE EFFECTS; DOMINANT SPECIES; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESCAPE PROBABILITY; FOLIAGE DENSITY; FOREST TYPE; HIERARCHICAL LEVEL; HYPERSPECTRAL DATA; INVARIANT PARAMETERS; LAND COVER; MACRO SCALE; MICRO-SCALES; NEW ENGLAND , USA; OPERATIONAL USE; PHYSICALLY BASED; POWER FUNCTIONS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORY; RECOLLISION; RECOLLISION PROBABILITY; SCALING; SITE-SPECIFIC; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL INVARIANTS; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ECOSYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SCATTERING; SOLAR RADIATION; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

AVIRIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOREST CANOPY; LAND COVER; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; PLANTS; SCATTERING; SUN LIGHT; WOOD MEASUREMENT;

NEW ENGLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78751568116     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2010.06.004     Document Type: Article

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