Review of optical-based remote sensing for plant trait mapping

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-16

  Homolová, Lucie ^a,b   Malenovský, Zbyněk ^c   Clevers, Jan G P W ^b   García Santos, Glenda ^a   Schaepman, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Plant ecology; Plant traits; Remote sensing; Scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882654539     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2013.06.003     Document Type: Review

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