Estimation of water-related biochemical and biophysical vegetation properties using multitemporal airborne hyperspectral data and its comparison to MODIS spectral response

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 148, Issue , 2014, Pages 28-41

  Casas, A ^a   Riano D ^a,b,e   Ustin, S L ^a   Dennison, P ^c   Salas, J ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE HISTORIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^e Associated Research Unit GEOLAB b and d   (Spain)

Author keywords

Advanced Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS); Canopy water content; Curve fitting; Foliar water content; Fuel moisture content; Leaf area index; Leaf mass per area; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS); PROSAIL; Vegetation indexes

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; ESTIMATION; FUELS; QUARTZ; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROMETERS; VEGETATION;

ADVANCED VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; CANOPY WATER CONTENTS; FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT; LEAF AREA INDEX; LEAF MASS PER AREA; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; PROSAIL; VEGETATION INDEX;

INFRARED SPECTROMETERS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODIS; SENSOR; VEGETATION COVER; WATER CONTENT; WATER RETENTION; AVIRIS; BIOPHYSICS; DATA SET; LEAF AREA INDEX; MOISTURE CONTENT; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES; JASPER RIDGE BIOLOGICAL PRESERVE;

EID: 84897936903     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.03.011     Document Type: Article

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