Estimation of leaf traits from reflectance measurements: Comparison between methods based on vegetation indices and several versions of the PROSPECT model

Plant Methods

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Jiang, Jingyi ^a   Comar, Alexis ^b   Burger, Philippe ^c   Bancal, Pierre ^d   Weiss, Marie ^a   Baret, Frédéric ^a  

^a UAPV   (France)

^b Hi Phen   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d UMR 1402 ECOSYS   (France)

Author keywords

Carotenoid content; Chlorophyll content; Dry matter content; Leaf; Phenotyping; Radiative transfer model; Reflectance; Transmittance; Water content; Wheat

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044178290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13007-018-0291-x     Document Type: Article

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