Estimating forest variables from top-of-atmosphere radiance satellite measurements using coupled radiative transfer models

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1043-1052

  Laurent, Valérie C E ^a   Verhoef, Wout ^b   Clevers, Jan G P W ^a   Schaepman, Michael E ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CHRIS PROBA; Forest; MODTRAN; Radiative transfer; SLC; Top of atmosphere; Variable estimation

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

CHRIS/PROBA; FOREST; LOCAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; MODTRAN; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORY; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; TOP-OF-ATMOSPHERE RADIANCES;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BIOPHYSICS; CANOPY EXCHANGE; CANOPY REFLECTANCE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORWARD MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

LAMBERTIA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 79960736668     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.12.009     Document Type: Article

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