Remote sensing of leaf, canopy, and vegetation water contents for satellite environmental data records

Satellite-Based Applications on Climate Change

Volumn 9789400758728, Issue , 2013, Pages 335-357

  Hunt, E Raymond ^a   Ustin, Susan L ^b   Riaño, David ^b,c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE HISTORIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Drought; Fuel moisture content; Model inversion; Plant water stress; Soil moisture content; Spectroscopy; Vegetation indices; Wildfire potential

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FIRES; FUELS; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER CONTENT;

CANOPY WATER CONTENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS; FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT; LEAF WATER CONTENT; MODEL INVERSION; PLANT WATER STRESS; SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT; VEGETATION INDEX; VEGETATION WATER CONTENT; WILDFIRE POTENTIAL;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84932604075     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5872-8_20     Document Type: Chapter

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