On the relationship between continuous measures of canopy greenness derived using near-surface remote sensing and satellite-derived vegetation products

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 247, Issue , 2017, Pages 280-292

  Brown, Luke A ^a   Dash, Jadunandan ^a   Ogutu, Booker O ^a   Richardson, Andrew D ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Northern Arizona University   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll; FAPAR; MERIS; NDVI; PhenoCam; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027881782     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.08.012     Document Type: Article

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