Estimation of vegetation clumping index using MODIS BRDF data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2645-2657

  Pisek, Jan ^a   Chen, Jing Ming ^b   Nilson, Tiit ^a  

^a TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; FIELD MEASUREMENT; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MULTI-ANGLE REMOTE SENSING; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCES; POLARIZATION AND DIRECTIONALITY OF EARTH REFLECTANCES; RADIATION INTERCEPTION; VEGETATION CLUMPING INDEX;

RADIOMETERS;

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOLIAGE; MODIS; NDVI; PARAMETERIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; VEGETATION INDEX;

EID: 79957497478     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.507611     Document Type: Article

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