Ecological Research Needs from Multiangle Remote Sensing Data

✍ Scribed by Gregory P Asner; B.H Braswell; David S Schimel; Carol A Wessman

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 427 KB
• Volume: 63
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0034-4257
• DOI: 10.1016/s0034-4257(97)00139-9

✦ Synopsis

and vegetation, the BRDF is strongly anisotropic (Fig. Biology and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sci-1). Variation in the BRDF of vegetation results primarily ences, University of Colorado, Boulder from differences in canopy-and landscape-level struc- † Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham tural characteristics, along with leaf biochemical and soil ‡ National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder

textural attributes (e.g., Myneni et al., 1989