Retrieval of forest canopy parameters by inversion of the proflair leaf-canopy reflectance model using the LUT approach

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 715-723

  Omari, Khalid ^a,b   White, H Peter ^b   Staenz, Karl ^c   King, Douglas J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^d CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environmental remediation; hyperspectral imaging; vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

CANOPY SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; CHLOROPHYLL CONTENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING; LEAF CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT; SPECIFIC DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION MAPPING;

CHLOROPHYLL; REFLECTION; SPECTROSCOPY;

FORESTRY;

CHLOROPHYLL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INVERSION; FOREST CANOPY; HYPERION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEAF AREA INDEX; PARAMETERIZATION; REMEDIATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

CHLOROPHYLLS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; PLANTS; REFLECTION; SPECTROSCOPY;

HYPERION;

EID: 84877927537     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2240264     Document Type: Article

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