GOST: A geometric-optical model for sloping terrains

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5469-5482

  Fan, Weiliang ^a   Chen, Jing M ^a,b   Ju, Weimin ^a   Zhu, Gaolong ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Canopy structure; geometric optical (GO) modeling; radiative transfer; remote sensing; sloping terrains

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; CANOPY ARCHITECTURES; CANOPY GAP FRACTIONS; CANOPY STRUCTURE; COMPUTER MODELING TECHNIQUES; LANDSAT-5 (L5) THEMATIC MAPPER; MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTIONS; SLOPING TERRAINS;

FORESTRY;

CANOPY REFLECTANCE; GEOMETRY; LANDSAT; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; SLOPE; TERRAIN; TREE;

FOREST CANOPY; FORESTRY; GEOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84898600676     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2289852     Document Type: Article

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