Remote estimation of crop and grass chlorophyll and nitrogen content using red-edge bands on sentinel-2 and-3

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 344-351

  Clevers, J G P W ^a   Gitelson, A A ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll content; MERIS; Nitrogen content; Red edge; Sentinel 2; Sentinel 3; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CROP; ENVISAT-1; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRASS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MERIS; NITROGEN; REMOTE SENSING; SENTINEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 84880274496     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.10.008     Document Type: Article

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