Estimating the fractional vegetation cover from glass leaf area index product

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Xiao, Zhiqiang ^a   Wang, Tongtong ^a   Liang, Shunlin ^a,b   Sun, Rui ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

FCover; GEOV1; GLASS; LAI; Validation

Indexed keywords

CARBON; VEGETATION;

BIO-PHYSICAL VARIABLES; EQUATORIAL RAINFORESTS; FCOVER; FRACTIONAL VEGETATION COVER; GEOV1; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; VALIDATION;

GLASS;

EID: 84971671275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8040337     Document Type: Article

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