Mixed-grass prairie canopy structure and spectral reflectance vary with topographic position

Environmental Management

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 914-928

  Phillips, Rebecca L ^a   Ngugi, Moffatt K ^a   Hendrickson, John ^a   Smith, Aaron ^b   West, Mark ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Ducks Unlimited   (United States)

Author keywords

ASTER; Biomass; Canopy height; Landsat; Remote sensing; VOR

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SPACEBORNE THERMAL EMISSION AND REFLECTION RADIOMETER; ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUE; ASTER; CANOPY HEIGHTS; CANOPY LEAF AREA; CANOPY STRUCTURE; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; CROP MASS; FIELD SURVEYS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; LANDSAT; LANDSAT TM; LANDSCAPE SCALE; LEAF AREA; MIXED-GRASS PRAIRIE; PUBLIC LANDS; SOUTH DAKOTAS; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCES; SPECTRAL VEGETATION INDICES; TOPOGRAPHIC POSITIONS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VOR;

BIOMASS; CROPS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING;

VEGETATION;

NITROGEN; WATER;

ASTER; BIOMASS; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CANOPY REFLECTANCE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FORAGE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIVESTOCK; PRAIRIE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CANOPY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORAGE; GRASSLAND; LANDSCAPE; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; PLANT HEIGHT; PLANT LEAF; PRAIRIE; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; TOPOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; WATER CONTENT; WILDLIFE;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN; PLANT LEAVES; POACEAE; SOUTH DAKOTA; WATER;

GRAND RIVER NATIONAL GRASSLAND; NORTH DAKOTA; SOUTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867575392     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-012-9931-5     Document Type: Article

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