Methodologies and uncertainties in the use of the terrestrial chlorophyll index for the sentinel-3 mission

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1112-1133

  Vuolo, Francesco ^a   Dash, Jadunandan ^b   Curran, Paul J ^c   Lajas, Dulce ^d   Kwiatkowska, Ewa ^e  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^e EUMETSAT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Canopy Chlorophyll Content (CCC); Envisat MERIS; Leaf Area Index (LAI); Meris Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index (MTCI); OLCI Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index (OTCI); Sentinel 3

Indexed keywords

CANOPY CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL INDEX; ENVISAT-MERIS; LEAF AREA INDEX; SENTINEL-3;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RADIOMETERS; SPECTROMETERS;

CHLOROPHYLL;

EID: 84861434438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4051112     Document Type: Article

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