Seasonal variation in MODIS LAI for a boreal forest area in Finland

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 126, Issue , 2012, Pages 104-115

  Heiskanen, Janne ^a   Rautiainen, Miina ^a   Stenberg, Pauline ^a   Mõttus, Matti ^a   Vesanto, Veli Heikki ^a   Korhonen, Lauri ^b   Majasalmi, Titta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Conifer; Evergreen needleleaf; Leaf area index; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FORESTS; CONIFER; CONIFEROUS FORESTS; EMPIRICAL REGRESSION MODEL; EVERGREEN NEEDLELEAF; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FINE RESOLUTION; FINLAND; GROWING SEASON; HYPERION; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODIS LAI; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SATELLITE IMAGES; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTHERN FINLAND; STUDY AREAS; UNDERSTORY VEGETATION; VALIDATION DATA; VEGETATION INDEX;

ALGORITHMS; RADIOMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNOW; TIME SERIES;

FORESTRY;

ALGORITHM; BOREAL FOREST; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; GROWING SEASON; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERSTORY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATURATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; LEAVES; RADIOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNOW; SOFTWOODS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

FINLAND;

CONIFEROPHYTA; HYPERION;

EID: 84865767453     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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