Relationship between fraction of radiation absorbed by photosynthesizing maize and soybean canopies and NDVI from remotely sensed data taken at close range and from MODIS 250m resolution data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 147, Issue , 2014, Pages 108-120

  Gitelson, Anatoly A ^a   Peng, Yi ^a   Huemmrich, Karl F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b NASA Goddard Space Flight Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorbed photosynthetically active radiation; NDVI; Reflectance

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CROPS; ESTIMATION; HYSTERESIS; REFLECTION; VEGETATION;

LEAF CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; NDVI; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

RADIOMETERS;

ABSORPTION; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; MAIZE; MODIS; NDVI; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOYBEAN; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

EID: 84896975293     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.02.014     Document Type: Article

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