Multitemporal and multiresolution leaf area index retrieval for operational local rice crop monitoring

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 187, Issue , 2016, Pages 102-118

  Campos Taberner, Manuel ^a   García Haro, Francisco Javier ^a   Camps Valls, Gustau ^a   Grau Muedra, Gonçal ^a   Nutini, Francesco ^b   Crema, Alberto ^b   Boschetti, Mirco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crop monitoring; Gaussian process regression (GPR); Landsat; Leaf area index (LAI) retrieval; PROSAIL; Rice; Smartphone; SPOT5 Take5

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; CROPS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SMARTPHONES; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CROP MONITORING; GAUSSIAN PROCESS REGRESSION; LANDSAT; LEAF AREA INDEX; PROSAIL; RICE; SPOT5 TAKE5;

DATA HANDLING;

DATA PROCESSING; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LANDSAT; LEAF AREA INDEX; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MONITORING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REAL TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RICE; SATELLITE DATA; SENTINEL; SPOT; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

ITALY; SPAIN;

EID: 84991575767     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.10.009     Document Type: Article

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