The impact of sunlight conditions on the consistency of vegetation indices in croplands-Effective usage of vegetation indices from continuous ground-based spectral measurements

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 14079-14098

  Ishihara, Mitsunori ^a   Inoue, Yoshio ^a   Ono, Keisuke ^a   Shimizu, Mariko ^b,c   Matsuura, Shoji ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c PUBLIC WORKS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Croplands; Ground based spectral measurements; PROSAIL; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; REMOTE SENSING;

CANOPY REFLECTANCE MODEL; CROPLANDS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PROSAIL; SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT; SPECTRAL OBSERVATIONS; VALIDATION OF SATELLITE DATUM; VEGETATION INDEX;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84945980402     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs71014079     Document Type: Article

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