Effects of Canopy Structural Variables on Retrieval of Leaf Dry Matter Content and Specific Leaf Area from Remotely Sensed Data

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 898-909

  Ali, Abebe Mohammed ^a   Darvishzadeh, Roshanak ^a   Skidmore, Andrew K ^a   Duren, Iris Van ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Canopy structural variables; invertible forest reflectance model (INFORM); leaf dry matter content (LDMC); leaf traits; radiative transfer; specific leaf area (SLA)

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING;

CANOPY REFLECTANCE; FOREST REFLECTANCE MODEL; HYPERSPECTRAL SENSORS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SPECTRAL VARIATION; UNDERLYING FACTORS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CANOPY REFLECTANCE; DRY MATTER; LEAF AREA; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

BAVARIA; BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK; GERMANY;

EID: 84937884526     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2450762     Document Type: Article

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