Mapping Leaf Area Index With a Smartphone and Gaussian Processes

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2501-2505

  Campos Taberner, Manuel ^a   García Haro, Franciso Javier ^a   Moreno, Álvaro ^a   Gilabert, María Amparo ^a   Sánchez Ruiz, Sergio ^a   Martínez, Beatriz ^a   Camps Valls, Gustau ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Earth; Ground penetrating radar; Indexes; Instruments; Remote sensing; Satellites; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); LEARNING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES;

BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; NONLINEAR GAUSSIAN; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; UBIQUITOUS SENSOR;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 84947863460     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2488682     Document Type: Article

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