Retrieving leaf area index from landsat using MODIS LAI products and field measurements

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 773-777

  Gao, Feng ^a   Anderson, Martha C ^a   Kustas, William P ^a   Houborg, Rasmus ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biophysical parameters; disaggregation; downscaling; Landsat; leaf area index (LAI); Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); Soil Moisture Experiment of 2002 (SMEX02) field campaign; spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; DISAGGREGATION; DOWN-SCALING; FIELD CAMPAIGN; LANDSAT; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SPATIAL STATISTICS;

EXPERIMENTS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 84890555608     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2278782     Document Type: Article

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