Inversion of leaf area index based on small-footprint waveform airborne LIDAR

Nongye Gongcheng Xuebao/Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 207-213

  Zhou, Mengwei ^a,b   Liu, Qinhuo ^a   Liu, Qiang ^a   Xiao, Qing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Crops; Lasers; Leaf area density; Leaf area index; Radar equipment; Waveform

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LIDAR; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; FIELD MEASUREMENT DATA; G FUNCTION; GAUSSIANS; LEAF AREA; LEAF AREA INDEX; REFLECTANCE MODEL; RELATIVE ERRORS; SINGLE SCATTERING; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WAVE FORMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS; REFLECTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 79959759155     PISSN: 10026819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-6819.2011.04.036     Document Type: Article

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