Geostatistics for mapping leaf area index over a cropland landscape: Efficiency sampling assessment

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2584-2606

  Martinez, Beatriz ^a   Cassiraga, Eduardo ^b   Camacho, Fernando ^a   Garcia Haro, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cropland landscape; Geostatistics methods; Leaf area index; Spatial sampling

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY INFORMATION; AUXILIARY VARIABLES; CO-KRIGING; CROPLAND LANDSCAPE; GEO-STATISTICS; GEOSTATISTICAL MODELS; GEOSTATISTICS METHOD; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; KRIGING TECHNIQUE; KRIGING WITH AN EXTERNAL DRIFT; LAND COVER; LEAF AREA INDEX; LOCAL SCALE; NONSTATIONARY; ORDINARY KRIGING; SPATIAL DEPENDENCE; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL SAMPLING; SPATIAL SCALE; STRATIFIED SAMPLING; TOA REFLECTANCE;

ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERPOLATION; RAIN;

MAPPING;

EID: 80051581672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2112584     Document Type: Article

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