With the successful launch of the IKONOS satellite, very high geometric resolution imagery is within reach of civilian users. In the 1-m spatial resolution images acquired by the IKONOS satellite, details of buildings, individual trees, and vegetation structural variations are detectable. The visibility of such details opens up many new applications, which require the use of geometrical information contained in the images. This paper presents an application in which spectral and textural information is used for mapping the leaf area index (LAI) of different vegetation types. This study includes the estimation of LAI by different spectral vegetation indices (SVIs) combined with image textural information and geostatistical parameters derived from high resolution satellite data. It is shown that the relationships between spectral vegetation indices and biophysical parameters should be developed separately for each vegetation type, and that the combination of the texture indices and vegetation indices results in an improved fit of the regression equation for most vegetation types when compared with one derived from SVIs alone. High within-field spatial variability was found in LAI, suggesting that high resolution mapping of LAI may be relevant to the introduction of precision farming techniques in the agricultural management strategies of the investigated area. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved

Colombo, R., Bellingeri, D., Fasolini, D., Marino, C. (2003). Retrieval of leaf area index in different vegetation types using high resolution satellite data. REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT, 86(1), 120-131 [10.1016/S0034-4257(03)00094-4].

Retrieval of leaf area index in different vegetation types using high resolution satellite data

COLOMBO, ROBERTO;MARINO, CARLO MARIA
2003

Abstract

With the successful launch of the IKONOS satellite, very high geometric resolution imagery is within reach of civilian users. In the 1-m spatial resolution images acquired by the IKONOS satellite, details of buildings, individual trees, and vegetation structural variations are detectable. The visibility of such details opens up many new applications, which require the use of geometrical information contained in the images. This paper presents an application in which spectral and textural information is used for mapping the leaf area index (LAI) of different vegetation types. This study includes the estimation of LAI by different spectral vegetation indices (SVIs) combined with image textural information and geostatistical parameters derived from high resolution satellite data. It is shown that the relationships between spectral vegetation indices and biophysical parameters should be developed separately for each vegetation type, and that the combination of the texture indices and vegetation indices results in an improved fit of the regression equation for most vegetation types when compared with one derived from SVIs alone. High within-field spatial variability was found in LAI, suggesting that high resolution mapping of LAI may be relevant to the introduction of precision farming techniques in the agricultural management strategies of the investigated area. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved
Articolo in rivista - Articolo scientifico
LAI; IKONOS; SVIs; texture indices
English
2003
86
1
120
131
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Colombo, R., Bellingeri, D., Fasolini, D., Marino, C. (2003). Retrieval of leaf area index in different vegetation types using high resolution satellite data. REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT, 86(1), 120-131 [10.1016/S0034-4257(03)00094-4].
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