Estimating canopy nitrogen content in a heterogeneous grassland with varying fire and grazing treatments: Konza Prairie, Kansas, USA

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 4430-4453

  Ling, Bohua ^a   Goodin, Douglas G ^a   Mohler, Rhett L ^b   Laws, Angela N ^a,c   Joern, Anthony ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous canopy; Hyperspectral remote sensing; Nitrogen estimates

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING;

HETEROGENEOUS CANOPY; HYPERSPECTRAL ANALYSIS; HYPERSPECTRAL DATA; HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; TALLGRASS PRAIRIE;

NITROGEN;

EID: 84901497313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6054430     Document Type: Article

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