A suitable vegetation index for quantifying temporal variation of leaf area index (LAI) in semiarid mixed grassland

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 709-721

  Li, Zhaoqin ^a   Guo, Xulin ^b  

^a Department of Geography and Planning ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARE SOILS; DETERMINING INDEX; GROWING SEASON; HYPERSPECTRAL; LEAF AREA INDEX; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION INDEX;

CHLOROPHYLL; SOILS;

VEGETATION;

EID: 80052442681     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m11-002     Document Type: Article

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