Sensitivity analysis of vegetation reflectance to biochemical and biophysical variables at leaf, canopy, and regional scales

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4014-4024

  Xiao, Yanfang ^a,b   Zhao, Wenji ^a   Zhou, Demin ^a   Gong, Huili ^a  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

Extended Fourier amplitude sensitivity test (EFAST); radiative transfer; scale; sensitivity analysis (SA); Vegetation index (VI)

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BIO-PHYSICAL VARIABLES; EXTENDED FOURIER AMPLITUDE SENSITIVITY TEST (EFAST); NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE WATER INDEX; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCES; PERPENDICULAR VEGETATION INDEX; SCALE; VEGETATION INDEX;

VEGETATION;

ABSORPTION; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOPHYSICS; CANOPY REFLECTANCE; CHLOROPHYLL; NDVI; REFLECTANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VISIBLE SPECTRUM; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84896388320     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2278838     Document Type: Article

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