Evaluation of the PROSAIL model capabilities for future hyperspectral model environments: A review study

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Berger, Katja ^a   Atzberger, Clement ^b   Danner, Martin ^a   D'Urso, Guido ^c   Mauser, Wolfram ^a   Vuolo, Francesco ^b   Hank, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biophysical and biochemical variables; EnMAP sensor; Hyperspectral; Leaf area index (LAI); Model inversion; PROSAIL; Radiative transfer model

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CROPS;

BIOPHYSICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL VARIABLES; HYPERSPECTRAL; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODEL INVERSION; PROSAIL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

EID: 85040652973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10010085     Document Type: Review

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