Retrieval of forest leaf functional traits from HySpex imagery using radiative transfer models and continuous wavelet analysis

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 122, Issue , 2016, Pages 68-80

  Ali, Abebe Mohammed ^a,b   Skidmore, Andrew K ^a   Darvishzadeh, Roshanak ^a   van Duren, Iris ^a   Holzwarth, Stefanie ^c   Mueller, Joerg ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b WOLLO UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Continuous wavelet analysis; INFORM; LDMC; Leaf traits; SLA

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK; CONTINUOUS WAVELET ANALYSIS; INFORM; LDMC; LEAF TRAITS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; VEGETATION PROPERTIES;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEAF; LEAF AREA; PREDICTION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

BAVARIA; BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK; GERMANY;

EID: 84992753560     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2016.09.015     Document Type: Article

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