Predicting grassland leaf area index in the meadow steppes of Northern China: A comparative study of regression approaches and hybrid geostatistical methods

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Li, Zhenwang ^a   Wang, Jianghao ^b   Tang, Huan ^a   Huang, Chengquan ^c   Yang, Fan ^a   Chen, Baorui ^a   Wang, Xu ^a   Xin, Xiaoping ^a   Ge, Yong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Grassland; Leaf area index; Predict; Regression; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DECISION TREES; FORECASTING; INTERPOLATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NEURAL NETWORKS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

GEO-STATISTICS; GRASSLAND; LEAF AREA INDEX; PREDICT; REGRESSION;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84983738622     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8080632     Document Type: Article

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