Mapping reflectance anisotropy of a potato canopy using aerial images acquired with an unmanned aerial vehicle

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Roosjen, Peter P J ^a   Suomalainen, Juha M ^a,b   Bartholomeus, Harm M ^a   Kooistra, Lammert ^a   Clevers, Jan G P W ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b FINNISH GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF); Frame camera; Multi spectral; Rahman Pinty Verstraete (RPV) model; Reflectance anisotropy; Unmanned aerial vehicle

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BACKSCATTERING; CAMERAS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FORWARD SCATTERING; MAPPING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PIXELS; REFLECTION; VEHICLES;

ANISOTROPIC REFLECTANCE; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; ILLUMINATION GEOMETRY; LARGE FIELD OF VIEWS; MULTI-SPECTRAL; NITROGEN FERTILIZATION; VEGETATION PROPERTIES;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 85019892145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9050417     Document Type: Article

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