Seasonal and inter-annual variation in view angle effects on MODIS vegetation indices at three forest sites

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3112-3120

  Sims, Daniel A ^a   Rahman, Abdullah F ^a   Vermote, Eric F ^b   Jiang, Zuoning ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

BRDF; Enhanced vegetation index (EVI); Harvard forest; Howland forest; Morgan Monroe state forest; Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI); Photochemical reflectance index (PRI)

Indexed keywords

BRDF; ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; HARVARD; HOWLAND FOREST; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PHOTOCHEMICAL REFLECTANCE INDEX; STATE FORESTS;

BACKSCATTERING; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FORESTRY; NASA; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

VEGETATION;

BACKSCATTER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MODIS; NDVI; SATELLITE DATA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VEGETATION TYPE;

DISTRIBUTION; FORESTRY; FORESTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARAMETERS; PLANTS; SATELLITES; SENSITIVITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 81355149748     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.06.018     Document Type: Article

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