Application of Sentinel-2A data for pasture biomass monitoring using a physically based radiative transfer model

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 218, Issue , 2018, Pages 207-220

  Punalekar, S M ^a   Verhoef, A ^a   Quaife, T L ^a   Humphries, D ^a   Bermingham, L ^b   Reynolds, C K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b Rezatec   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grassland; Leaf Area Index; Model inversion; Pasture; Radiative transfer; Satellite retrieval; Sentinel 2A

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; MIXTURES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; VEGETATION;

GRASSLAND; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODEL INVERSION; PASTURE; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SENTINEL 2A;

AGRICULTURE;

AGRONOMY; BIOMASS; BIOMONITORING; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; GRASSLAND; LEAF AREA INDEX; NDVI; NUMERICAL MODEL; PASTURE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SENTINEL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

LOLIUM PERENNE; POACEAE;

EID: 85054316283     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.09.028     Document Type: Article

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