Indirect measurement of leaf area index on the basis of path length distribution

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 155, Issue , 2014, Pages 239-247

  Hu, Ronghai ^a   Yan, Guangjian ^a   Mu, Xihan ^a   Luo, Jinghui ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Beer's law; Clumping index; Gap probability; Leaf area index; Path length

Indexed keywords

BEER'S LAW; CLUMPING INDEX; INDIRECT MEASUREMENTS; LEAF AREA INDEX; PATH LENGTH; PATH LENGTH DISTRIBUTION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CANOPY GAP; ERROR ANALYSIS; LEAF AREA INDEX; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84909589748     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.08.032     Document Type: Article

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