Remote estimation of vegetation fraction and flower fraction in oilseed rape with unmanned aerial vehicle data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Fang, Shenghui ^a   Tang, Wenchao ^a   Peng, Yi ^a   Gong, Yan ^a   Dai, Can ^b   Chai, Ruhui ^a   Liu, Kan ^c  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

Canopy reflectance; Flower fraction; Oilseed rape; Unmanned aerial vehicle; Vegetation fraction

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; FORESTRY; INFRARED DEVICES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; REFLECTION; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEGETATION;

CANOPY REFLECTANCE; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; FLOWER FRACTION; OIL SEED RAPE; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; VEGETATION FRACTIONS; VISIBLE ATMOSPHERICALLY RESISTANT INDICES;

OILSEEDS;

EID: 84971455280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8050416     Document Type: Article

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