Assessment of vegetation indices for regional crop green LAI estimation from Landsat images over multiple growing seasons

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 123, Issue , 2012, Pages 347-358

  Liu, Jiangui ^a   Pattey, Elizabeth ^a   Jégo, Guillaume ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Assimilation; Corn; Green LAI; Landsat; Sensitivity analyses; Soybean; Uncertainty; Vegetation indices; Wheat

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION; CORN; GREEN LAI; LANDSAT; SOYBEAN; UNCERTAINTY; VEGETATION INDEX; WHEAT;

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CHLOROPHYLL; CROPS; ESTIMATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OILSEEDS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REFLECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOILS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

VEGETATION;

CHLOROPHYLL; GROWING SEASON; LANDSAT; LEAF AREA INDEX; MAIZE; NDVI; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOYBEAN; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WHEAT;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; OTTAWA;

GLYCINE MAX; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84860371594     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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