Assessment of digital camera-derived vegetation indices in quantitative monitoring of seasonal rice growth

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 872-882

  Sakamoto, Toshihiro ^a   Shibayama, Michio ^a   Kimura, Akihiko ^b   Takada, Eiji ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Kimura Ouyo Kougei Ltd   (Japan)

^c TOYAMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active sensing; Crop phenology; Flashlight

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SENSING; BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; COLOR IMAGES; CROP GROWTH; CROP PHENOLOGY; DIGITAL NUMBERS; DRY MATTERS; FIELD OF VIEWS; LEAF AREA INDEX; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; NEAR INFRA RED; NIR IMAGE; OBSERVATION SYSTEMS; OUTDOOR EXPERIMENT; POINT LIGHT SOURCE; RECORDING SYSTEMS; RELATIVE BRIGHTNESS; REPRODUCTIVE STAGE; RGB IMAGES; SIGMOID CURVES; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS; TIME-SERIES DATA; VEGETATION INDEX; VISIBLE ATMOSPHERICALLY RESISTANT INDICES;

AGRONOMY; BIOLOGY; CROPS; DIGITAL CAMERAS; EXPERIMENTS; FLASHLIGHTS; FORESTRY; LIGHT SOURCES; LUMINANCE; MONITORING; PHENOLS; VEGETATION; VIDEO CAMERAS; WATERPROOFING;

INFRARED DEVICES;

AGRONOMY; CROP PRODUCTION; DIGITAL IMAGE; GROWTH RATE; HETEROGENEITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEAF AREA INDEX; MONITORING; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RICE; VEGETATION INDEX;

EID: 80053914949     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2011.08.005     Document Type: Article

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