Modeling directional forest reflectance with the hybrid type forest reflectance model FRT

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 149, Issue , 2014, Pages 196-204

  Kuusk, Andres ^a   Kuusk, Joel ^a   Lang, Mait ^a,b  

^a TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Airborne measurements; Forest BRF; Model validation

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; REFLECTION;

AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS; DIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCES; FOREST BRF; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTIONS; LEAF ANGLE DISTRIBUTIONS; MODEL VALIDATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SCATTERING PHASE FUNCTION;

FORESTRY;

DISTRIBUTION; FORESTRY; MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION;

EID: 84899717665     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.03.035     Document Type: Article

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