Reply to Townsend et al.: Decoupling contributions from canopy structure and leaf optics is critical for remote sensing leaf biochemistry

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Knyazikhin, Yuri ^a   Lewis, Philip ^b   Disney, Mathias I ^b   Stenberg, Pauline ^c   Mõttus, Matti ^c   Rautiainen, Miina ^c   Kaufmann, Robert K ^a   Marshak, Alexander ^d   Schull, Mitchell A ^e   Carmona, Pedro Latorre ^f   Vanderbilt, Vern ^g   Davis, Anthony B ^h   Baret, Frédéric ⁱ   Jacquemoud, Stéphane ^j   Lyapustin, Alexei ^d   Yang, Yan ^a   Myneni, Ranga B ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^f Universidad de Jaume i   (Spain)

^g NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ UAPV   (France)

^j INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CANOPY; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STRUCTURES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; HUMANS;

EID: 84875263222     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301247110     Document Type: Letter

References (5)

1. Townsend PA, Serbin SP, Kruger EL, Gamon JA (2013) Disentangling the contribution of biological and physical properties of leaves and canopies in imaging spectroscopy data. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 110:E1074.
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3. Knyazikhin Y, et al. (2013) Hyperspectral remote sensing of foliar nitrogen content. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 110(3):E185-E192.
4. Fisher JB (2009) Canopy nitrogen and albedo from remote sensing: What exactly are we seeing? Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106(7):E16-E16, author reply E17.
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