Characterizing canopy structural complexity for the estimation of maize LAI based on ALS data and UAV stereo images

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 8-10, 2017, Pages 2106-2116

  Li, Wang ^a   Niu, Zheng ^a   Chen, Hanyue ^b   Li, Dong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CORRELATION METHODS; PLANTS (BOTANY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; COMPLEXITY METRICS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTES; LEAVE-ONE-OUT CROSS-VALIDATION (LOOCV); PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; STEPWISE LINEAR REGRESSION; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY;

STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

AIRBORNE SENSING; AIRCRAFT; CANOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER METHOD; LEAF AREA INDEX; MAIZE; REMOTE SENSING; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84989236088     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2016.1235300     Document Type: Article

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