Variation and directional anisotropy of reflectance at the crown scale - Implications for tree species classification in digital aerial images

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2062-2074

  Korpela, Ilkka ^a   Heikkinen, Ville ^b   Honkavaara, Eija ^c   Rohrbach, Felix ^d   Tokola, Timo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

BRDF; Crown modeling; Illumination; Line sensor; Radiometric calibration

Indexed keywords

BRDF; CROWN MODELING; ILLUMINATION; LINE SENSOR; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS;

ANISOTROPY; OPTICAL RADAR; PLANT EXTRACTS; REFLECTION; SENSORS;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; ANISOTROPY; CALIBRATION; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CANOPY REFLECTANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIGITAL IMAGE; FOREST CANOPY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LIDAR; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PRECISION; SENSOR; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79957623370     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.04.008     Document Type: Article

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