YAO Yan-juan~1, CHEN Liang-fu~1, LIU Qin-huo~1, et al. Inversion and Validation of Leaf Area Index Based on the Spectral & Knowledge Database Using MODIS Data[J]. Journal of Remote Sensing, 2006, (6): 869-878. DOI: 10.11834/jrs.200606128.
Inversion and Validation of Leaf Area Index Based on the Spectral & Knowledge Database Using MODIS Data
It is feasible to retrieve LAI over large area from remote sensing data with physical models;however
it is quite difficult to get accurate LAI and thus limit the remote sensing application without enough prior knowledge due to the underdetermined parameters in the physical inversion models.A spectrum database system of typical objects in China(SpecLib) has been set up recently
which may provide a priori knowledge of typical land cover for LAI inversion.MODIS data is used to retrieve LAI after atmosphere correction
geometrical correction and cloud identification.The SAIL(Scattering by Arbitrarily Inclined Layers) model is applied for the inversion of LAI for MODIS data.The vegetation coverage of the mixed pixels of the MODIS data are calculated based on the TM data sets.The LAIs of pure pixels(computed from the retrieved LAIs and vegetation coverage) are compared with the field measurement data in Luancheng
Heibei Province
China.Meanwhile
the LAIs of pure pixels are also compared with the MODIS LAI data products.The inversion results show that the!SpecLib effectively improved the accuracy of leaf area index inversion.
State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Research Center for Remote Sensing and GIS, Dept. Geography and Beijing Key Laboratory for Remote Sensing of Environment and Digital Cities, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences