Mapping grassland leaf area index with airborne hyperspectral imagery: A comparison study of statistical approaches and inversion of radiative transfer models

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 894-906

  Darvishzadeh, Roshanak ^a   Atzberger, Clement ^b   Skidmore, Andrew ^c   Schlerf, Martin ^c  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hyperspectral; Mapping LAI; Mediterranean grassland; Modeling; Partial least square regression; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

COMPARISON STUDY; ESTIMATED PARAMETER; HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGES; HYPERSPECTRAL; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LEAF AREA INDEX; MEDITERRANEAN GRASSLAND; MODELING APPROACH; NARROW BAND VEGETATION INDICES; NATIONAL PARKS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE REGRESSION; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; PHYSICAL MODEL; PROSAIL INVERSION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; STATISTICAL APPROACH; VEGETATION INDICES; WAVEBANDS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; MODELS; PARKS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

MAPPING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA INVERSION; GRASSLAND; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LEAF AREA INDEX; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MODEL TEST; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; VEGETATION INDEX; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ABRUZZI; ITALY; MAJELLA NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 81555196440     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2011.09.013     Document Type: Article

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