Variation in understory and canopy reflectance during stand development in Finnish coniferous forests

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1077-1085

  Kuusinen, Nea ^a,b   Stenberg, Pauline ^b   Tomppo, Erkki ^a   Bernier, Pierre ^c   Berninger, Frank ^b  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Landsat; Linear and nonlinear umixing; Reflectance; Understory

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; PLANTS (BOTANY); REFLECTION;

BI-DIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE FACTORS; BOREAL FORESTS; LANDSAT; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER IMAGES; LINEAR AND NONLINEAR UMIXING; NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES; NEAR INFRARED SPECTRAL; UNDERSTORY;

FORESTRY;

ALBEDO; BOREAL FOREST; CANOPY REFLECTANCE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CORRELATION; FOREST INVENTORY; LAND SURFACE; LEAF AREA INDEX; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STAND STRUCTURE; UNDERSTORY;

FORESTS; PICEA ABIES; SATELLITES;

NORWAY;

PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84938337656     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2014-0538     Document Type: Article

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