Developing in situ non-destructive estimates of crop biomass to address issues of scale in remote sensing

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 808-835

  Marshall, Michael ^a   Thenkabail, Prasad ^b  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Field measurement; Hyperspectral; HyspIRI; Radiometer; Satellite calibration

Indexed keywords

COTTON; CROPS; INFRARED DEVICES; RADIOMETERS;

CALIFORNIA; CROP GROWTH MODEL; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FRACTION OF VEGETATION COVER; HYPERSPECTRAL; HYSPIRI; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84940529751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70100808     Document Type: Article

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