Retrieval of Specific Leaf Area from Landsat-8 Surface Reflectance Data Using Statistical and Physical Models

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 3529-3536

  Ali, Abebe Mohammed ^a   Darvishzadeh, Roshanak ^a   Skidmore, Andrew K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Landsat 8; radiative transfer model (RTM) and vegetation index (VI); specific leaf area (SLA)

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; TABLE LOOKUP; VEGETATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK; CONTINUOUS WAVELET ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; PREDICTIVE MODELING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; LEAF AREA INDEX; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; VEGETATION INDEX; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

BAVARIA; BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK; GERMANY;

EID: 85018475292     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2690623     Document Type: Article

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