Estimation of grassland biomass and nitrogen using MERIS data

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 196-204

  Ullah, Saleem ^a   Si, Yali ^b   Schlerf, Martin ^c   Skidmore, Andrew K ^a   Shafique, Muhammad ^d   Iqbal, Irfan Akhtar ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Public Research Centre Gabriel Lippmann   (Luxembourg)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR   (Pakistan)

^e Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Band depth analysis parameters; Density; Nitrogen concentration and nitrogen; Quantifying biomass; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOMASS; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; GRASSLAND; MERIS; NITROGEN; PARAMETERIZATION; VEGETATION INDEX;

EID: 84867659353     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.05.008     Document Type: Article

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