A comparison of the signal from diverse optical sensors for monitoring alpine grassland dynamics

Remote Sensing

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2019, Pages

  Rossi, Mattia ^a,b   Niedrist, Georg ^a   Asam, Sarah ^c   Tonon, Giustino ^b   Tomelleri, Enrico ^b   Zebisch, Marc ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpine grassland; Grassland dynamics; Multiscale; Multisensor; NDVI; Phenocam; Sentinel 2 MSI; Spectral Reflectance Sensors; Spectroradiometer

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; OPTICAL SENSORS; REFLECTION; SPECTROMETERS;

ALPINE GRASSLANDS; MULTI SENSOR; MULTISCALE; NDVI; PHENOCAM; SENTINEL-2 MSI; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCES; SPECTRO-RADIOMETERS;

VEGETATION;

EID: 85061367641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs11030296     Document Type: Article

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