NDVI derived from near-infrared-enabled digital cameras: Applicability across different plant functional types

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 249, Issue , 2018, Pages 275-285

  Filippa, Gianluca ^a   Cremonese, Edoardo ^a   Migliavacca, Mirco ^b   Galvagno, Marta ^a   Sonnentag, Oliver ^c   Humphreys, Elyn ^d   Hufkens, Koen ^h   Ryu, Youngryel ^f   Verfaillie, Joseph ^g   Morra di Cella, Umberto ^a   Richardson, Andrew D ^e  

^a Aosta Hospital   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Camera NDVI; Color indices; Near surface remote sensing; PhenoCam; Phenology; Phenopix

Indexed keywords

BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DIGITAL IMAGE; EVERGREEN FOREST; LAND COVER; MODIS; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 85033384296     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.11.003     Document Type: Article

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