Identification of season-dependent relationships between spectral vegetation indices and aboveground phytomass in alpine grassland by using field spectroscopy

Ekologia Bratislava

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 186-196

  Halabuk, Andrej ^a   Gerhátová, Katarína ^a   Kohút, František ^a   Necová, Zuzana Po ^a   Mojses, Matej ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Alpine meadows; Biomass; Cropscan; Tatra Mts

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; GRASSLAND; LITTER; NDVI; PHYTOMASS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

CARPATHIANS; LOW TATRA MOUNTAINS; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 84893635787     PISSN: 1335342X     EISSN: 1337947X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/eko-2013-0016     Document Type: Article

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