Long-Time-Series Global Land Surface Satellite Leaf Area Index Product Derived from MODIS and AVHRR Surface Reflectance

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 5301-5318

  Xiao, Zhiqiang ^a   Liang, Shunlin ^b   Wang, Jindi ^a   Xiang, Yang ^a   Zhao, Xiang ^a   Song, Jinling ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR); Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) products; leaf area index (LAI); Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); neural networks; time series; validation

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); GLASS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; REFLECTION; SPECTROMETERS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES;

BIO-PHYSICAL VARIABLES; GLOBAL LAND SURFACE; LAND-SURFACE PROCESS; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; VALIDATION;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AVHRR; CROP PLANT; DATA SET; GLOBAL CHANGE; GROWTH MODELING; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODEL VALIDATION; MODIS; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 84973523362     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2560522     Document Type: Article

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