Mapping biomass and stress in the Sierra Nevada using lidar and hyperspectral data fusion

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2917-2930

  Swatantran, Anu ^a   Dubayah, Ralph ^a   Roberts, Dar ^b   Hofton, Michelle ^a   Blair, J Bryan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

AVIRIS; Biomass; Hyperspectral; Lidar; LVIS; MESMA; Species; Stress

Indexed keywords

AVIRIS; HYPERSPECTRAL; LVIS; MESMA; SPECIES;

ATMOSPHERICS; CHLOROPHYLL; ERRORS; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOMAPPING; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSORS; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); VEGETATION;

BIOMASS;

AVIRIS; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; LIDAR; PIXEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSOR; SOIL PROFILE; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION MAPPING; WATER STRESS;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052631826     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.08.027     Document Type: Article

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