A new equation for deriving vegetation phenophase from time series of Leaf Area Index (LAI) data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 5650-5670

  Che, Mingliang ^a,b   Chen, Baozhang ^a,c   Zhang, Huifang ^a,b   Fang, Shifeng ^a   Xu, Guang ^a,b   Lin, Xiaofeng ^a,b   Wang, Yuchen ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Asymmetric Gaussian function; Leaf area index (LAI); Logistic function; S curve function; Vegetation phenology

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; ECOLOGY; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; RADIOMETERS; VEGETATION;

GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; LEAF AREA INDEX; LOGISTIC FUNCTIONS; S-CURVE FUNCTIONS; VEGETATION PHENOLOGY;

CURVE FITTING;

EID: 84921499698     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6065650     Document Type: Article

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