Estimating forest fAPAR from multispectral Landsat-8 data using the Invertible Forest Reflectance Model INFORM

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 7425-7446

  Yuan, Huili ^a   Ma, Ronghua ^a   Atzberger, Clement ^b   Li, Fei ^a   Loiselle, Steven Arthur ^c   Luo, Juhua ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

FAPAR; INFORM; LAI; Landsat 8; Model inversion; Neural network; OLI

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTION;

FAPAR; INFORM; LAI; LANDSAT; MODEL INVERSION; OLI;

FORESTRY;

FOREST CANOPY; FORESTS; MEASUREMENT; SIMULATION;

EID: 84933575458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70607425     Document Type: Article

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