Retrieval of boreal forest LAI using a forest reflectance model and empirical regressions

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 595-606

  Heiskanen, Janne ^a   Rautiainen, Miina ^a   Korhonen, Lauri ^b   Mõttus, Matti ^a   Stenberg, Pauline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

kNN; Leaf area index; Neural networks; PARAS; Spectral invariants; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BOREAL FOREST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOREST CANOPY; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LEAF AREA INDEX; MAPPING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPOT; VEGETATION INDEX;

FINLAND;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 80053233540     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

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