Foliage clumping index over China's landmass retrieved from the MODIS BRDF parameters product

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2122-2137

  Zhu, Gaolong ^a   Ju, Weimin ^b   Chen, Jing M ^b,c   Gong, Peng ^d,e   Xing, Bailing ^b   Zhu, Jingfang ^b  

^a MINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clumping index; hotspot; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); normalized difference between hotspot and darkspot (NDHD); Polarization and Directionality of Earth Reflectance (POLDER)

Indexed keywords

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; CLUMPING INDEX; COMPENSATION FUNCTIONS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FIELD MEASUREMENT; GEOMETRICAL MODELS; HOT SPOT; INDEX VALUES; LAND SURFACE MODELING; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIFIED MODEL; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCES; PLANT CANOPIES; POLARIZATION AND DIRECTIONALITY OF EARTH REFLECTANCES;

ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ALGORITHM; CANOPY; FOLIAGE; GEOMETRY; INDEX METHOD; LAND SURFACE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; REFLECTANCE; RESOLUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CHINA;

EID: 84861344454     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2172213     Document Type: Article

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