Retrieval of leaf water content spanning the visible to thermal infrared spectra

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 93, Issue , 2014, Pages 56-64

  Ullah, Saleem ^a,b   Skidmore, Andrew K ^b   Ramoelo, Abel ^c   Groen, Thomas A ^b   Naeem, Mohammad ^d   Ali, Asad ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SPACE TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^d ABDUL WALI KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Mid infrared (MIR); Remote sensing; Statistical models; Thermal infrared (TIR); Visible near infrared and shortwave infrared (VNIR SWIR); Water stress

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING;

COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; MIDINFRARED; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE REGRESSION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SHORT WAVE INFRARED; THERMAL INFRARED; VISIBLE-NEAR INFRARED; WATER STRESS;

INFRARED RADIATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFRARED IMAGERY; LEAF; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84899681391     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.04.005     Document Type: Article

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