Retrieval of vegetation biophysical parameters using Gaussian process techniques

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 5 PART 2, 2012, Pages 1832-1843

  Verrelst, Jochem ^a   Alonso, Luis ^a   Camps Valls, Gustavo ^a   Delegido, Jess ^a   Moreno, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll; Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (CHRIS); fractional vegetation cover (FVC); Gaussian processes (GPs); kernel methods; leaf area index (LAI); retrieval; vegetation indices (VIs)

Indexed keywords

COMPACT HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; FRACTIONAL VEGETATION COVER; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; KERNEL METHODS; LEAF AREA INDEX; RETRIEVAL; VEGETATION INDEX;

CHLOROPHYLL; ESTIMATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

VEGETATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOPHYSICS; CHLOROPHYLL; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAUSSIAN METHOD; LEAF AREA INDEX; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 84860332507     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2168962     Document Type: Article

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