Spatial scaling transformation modeling based on fractal theory for the leaf area index retrieved from remote sensing imagery

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Wu, Ling ^a   Liu, Xiang Nan ^b   Zheng, Xiao Po ^a   Qin, Qi Ming ^a   Ren, Hua Zhong ^a   Sun, Yue Jun ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

fractal dimension; leaf area index; scaling transformation; spatial resolution; standard deviation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICS;

DETERMINATION COEFFICIENTS; LEAF AREA INDEX; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX IMAGE; REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SCALING TRANSFORMATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STANDARD DEVIATION;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

EID: 84940063359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.9.096015     Document Type: Article

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