Canopy Height, Crown Cover, and Aboveground Biomass Maps for the Southwestern United States from MISR, 2000 and 2009
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
12-1-2010
Abstract
Red band reflectance factor data from NASA's Multiangle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) were used to create maps of woody plant canopy cover, fractional height, and aboveground biomass for the southwestern United States, via inversion of a geometric-optical (GO) model provided with reflectance magnitude and anisotropy via a Li-Ross bidirectional reflectance distribution model. Crown cover, canopy height, and biomass distributions are compatible with those seen in other data sets, although there are anomalies associated with the use of the same set of background prediction coefficients over the 10-year period.
DOI
10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5653064
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Chopping, Mark; Shimada, Sawahiko; Bull, Michael; and Martonchik, John, "Canopy Height, Crown Cover, and Aboveground Biomass Maps for the Southwestern United States from MISR, 2000 and 2009" (2010). Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 181.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/earth-environ-studies-facpubs/181