Calibration of a species-specific spectral vegetation index for leaf area index (LAI) monitoring: Example with MODIS reflectance time-series on eucalyptus Plantations

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3766-3780

  le Maire, Guerric ^a   Marsden, Claire ^a   Nouvellon, Yann ^a,b   Stape, José Luiz ^c   Ponzoni, Flávio Jorge ^d  

^a UMR ECO SOLS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Eucalypt; EucVI; MOD13Q1; PROSAIL; Radiative transfer model; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPT; EUCVI; MOD13Q1; PROSAIL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL;

CALIBRATION; FORESTRY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION;

RADIOMETERS;

CALIBRATION; EUCALYPTUS; FORESTRY; PLANTS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84872356938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4123766     Document Type: Article

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