Vegetation indices for mapping canopy foliar nitrogen in a mixed temperate forest

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Zhihui ^a,b   Wang, Tiejun ^a   Darvishzadeh, Roshanak ^a   Skidmore, Andrew K ^a   Jones, Simon ^b   Suarez, Lola ^b   Woodgate, William ^b,c,d   Heiden, Uta ^e   Heurich, Marco ^f   Hearne, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Andrew Haywood is with the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^f BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Canopy foliar nitrogen; Hyperspectral data; Mixed forest; Plant traits; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAPPING; NITROGEN; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; VEGETATION;

FOLIAR NITROGEN; HYPERSPECTRAL DATA; MIXED FORESTS; PLANT TRAITS; VEGETATION INDEX;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84974831100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8060491     Document Type: Article

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