Retrieval of Grassland Live Fuel Moisture Content by Parameterizing Radiative Transfer Model with Interval Estimated LAI

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

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 910-920

  Quan, Xingwen ^a   He, Binbin ^a   Li, Xing ^a   Liao, Zhanmang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Interval estimation; leaf area index (LAI); live fuel moisture content; PROSAIL (PROSPECT + SAIL) radiative transfer model; simple downscaling technique

Indexed keywords

FUELS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; TABLE LOOKUP;

CONFIDENCE LEVELS; INTERVAL ESTIMATION; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIVE FUEL MOISTURE; PARAMETERIZING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RETRIEVAL PROCESS; SIMPLE DOWNSCALING;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DOWNSCALING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRASSLAND; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODIS; MOISTURE CONTENT; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RISK ASSESSMENT; WILDFIRE;

EID: 84941346335     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2472415     Document Type: Article

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