Optimizing LUT-based RTM inversion for semiautomatic mapping of crop biophysical parameters from sentinel-2 and -3 data: Role of cost functions

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 257-269

  Verrelst, Jochem ^a   Rivera, Juan Pablo ^a   Leonenko, Ganna ^b   Alonso, Luis ^a   Moreno, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automated radiative transfer models operator (ARTMO); Chlorophyll content (Chl); Leaf area index (LAI); Lookup table (LUT) based inversion; PROSAIL; Radiative transfer models (RTMs); Sentinel 2 (S2); Sentinel 3 (S3)

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL CONTENTS; LEAF AREA INDEX; LOOK UP TABLE; PROSAIL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SENTINEL-2 (S2); SENTINEL-3 (S3);

BIOPHYSICS; CHLOROPHYLL; COST FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITES; TABLE LOOKUP;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

BIOPHYSICS; CHLOROPHYLL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; LEAF AREA INDEX; MAPPING METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; REFLECTANCE; RESOLUTION;

ALBACETE [CASTILLA-LA MANCHA]; BARRAX; CASTILLA-LA MANCHA; SPAIN;

EID: 84890429423     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2238242     Document Type: Article

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