Spectral index for quantifying leaf area index of winter wheat by field hyperspectral measurements: A case study in Gifu Prefecture, Central Japan

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 5329-5346

  Tanaka, Shinya ^a   Kawamura, Kensuke ^b   Maki, Masayasu ^c   Muramoto, Yasunori ^d   Yoshida, Kazuaki ^e   Akiyama, Tsuyoshi ^f  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d Gifu Prefectural Agricultural Technology   (Japan)

^e Gifu Region Agriculture and Forestry Office   (Japan)

^f GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ground based measurement; Hyperspectral; LAI; Sensitivity; Site specific crop management; Winter wheat

Indexed keywords

LINEAR REGRESSION; PLANTS (BOTANY); REFLECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; HYPERSPECTRAL; LAI; SENSITIVITY; SITE-SPECIFIC CROP MANAGEMENT; WINTER WHEAT;

CROPS;

EID: 84930032030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70505329     Document Type: Article

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