Cereal yield modeling in Finland using optical and radar remote sensing

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2185-2239

  Laurila, Heikki ^a   Karjalainen, Mika ^b   Kleemola, Jouko ^a   Hyyppä, Juha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

CAP; classification; CropWatN; Data fusion; FAPAR; Finland; GEMI; Harmonized data; Kalman Filter; LAI bridge; NDVI; Optical vegetation Indices models; PARND; SAR ASAR

Indexed keywords

CAP; CROPWATN; FAPAR; FINLAND; GEMI; HARMONIZED DATA; LAI-BRIDGE; NDVI; OPTICAL VEGETATION INDICES MODELS; PARND; SAR/ASAR;

CROPS; DATA FUSION; ESTIMATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

EID: 80051894087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2092185     Document Type: Article

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