The sensitivity based estimation of leaf area index from spectral vegetation indices

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 70, Issue , 2012, Pages 15-25

  Gonsamo, Alemu ^a,b   Pellikka, Petri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Leaf area index; Sensitivity function; Spectral vegetation index

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; FIRST DERIVATIVE; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LEAF AREA INDEX; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES REGRESSIONS; REFLECTANCE MODEL; REGRESSION FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY FUNCTIONS; SIMULATED SPECTRA; SOIL REFLECTANCE; SPECTRAL VEGETATION INDICES; STANDARD ERRORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); REFLECTION;

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; LEAF AREA INDEX; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL TYPE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 84859884463     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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