Derivation of leaf area index for grassland within alpine upland using multi-temporal RapidEye data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 8628-8652

  Asam, Sarah ^a   Fabritius, Heiko ^a   Klein, Doris ^b   Conrad, Christopher ^a   Dech, Stefan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; RATIO VEGETATION INDICES; REGRESSION FUNCTION; REGRESSION MODELLING; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; STATISTICAL REGRESSION; VEGETATION MONITORING;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; GRASSLAND; LEAF AREA INDEX; NDVI; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EID: 84886923232     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.845316     Document Type: Article

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