Technological advancement in tower-based canopy reflectance monitoring: The AMSPEC-III system

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 32020-32030

  Tortini, Riccardo ^a   Hilker, Thomas ^b   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Nesic, Zoran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gross primary production; Light use efficiency; Multi angle spectroscopy; Photosynthesis; PRI; Remote sensing; Spectro radiometer

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COLORIMETRIC ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION;

GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; MULTI ANGLE; PRI; SPECTRO-RADIOMETERS;

REMOTE SENSING;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PROCEDURES; REMOTE SENSING;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84950122093     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s151229906     Document Type: Article

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