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Estimating Leaf Area Index of Maize Based on Multi-angular CHRIS/PROBA Data
Received date: 2014-11-17
Request revised date: 2015-01-08
Online published: 2015-10-10
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Leaf area index is an important parameter for evaluating vegetation ecological conditions and estimating crop yields. Thus, the estimation of LAI has always been a hotspot of quantitative remote sensing research. A growing number of studies have focused on estimating the leaf area index (LAI) of vegetation using several traditional vegetation indices(the Normalized Difference Vegetation index (NDVI), the Ratio Vegetation Index (RVI), and the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)). These vegetation indices were all based on the data of single view zenith angle, which limited the accuracy of LAI estimation. In this article, we compared the sensitivity of the three vegetation indices for crop canopies, and then put forward a new vegetation index named Multi-angle Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (MNDVI) based on CHRIS/PROBA data which includes information with respect to five different view zenith angles. Using the ground crop LAI data obtained in Zhangye city from Gansu Province in June 2008, this paper compared the estimation models of LAI based on the four vegetation indices including the three traditional indices (NDVI, RVI and EVI) and MNDVI. The result shows that: compared with the traditional ones, MNDVI has a much better correlation with LAI, and the correlation coefficient R2 of the LAI calculation model reaches up to 0.716. Besides, in order to verify the accuracy of LAI retrieval model based onMNDVI, this paper calculated the RMSE between the estimated LAI using MNDVI model and the ground-measured LAI, finding that the RMSE was 0.127, which was averagely 33.3% lower comparing with methods using traditional vegetation indices.
QIAO Hailang , LI Wang , NIU Zheng . Estimating Leaf Area Index of Maize Based on Multi-angular CHRIS/PROBA Data[J]. Journal of Geo-information Science, 2015 , 17(10) : 1243 -1248 . DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1047.2015.01243
Fig. 1 NDVI distribution with respect to the view zenith angles图1 NDVI随观测天顶角的变化趋势 |
Tab. 1 Band settings of the third mode of CHRIS data(nm)表1 CHRIS模式3数据波段设置(nm) |
波段 | 中心波长 | 波宽 |
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1 | 442 | 11 |
2 | 490 | 12 |
3 | 530 | 12 |
4 | 551 | 13 |
5 | 570 | 11 |
6 | 631 | 14 |
7 | 661 | 16 |
8 | 674 | 11 |
9 | 697 | 12 |
10 | 706 | 6 |
11 | 712 | 6 |
12 | 741 | 12 |
13 | 752 | 7 |
14 | 780 | 23 |
15 | 872 | 27 |
16 | 895 | 19 |
17 | 909 | 10 |
18 | 1018 | 43 |
Fig. 2 The heatmap of correlogram between 18 bands图2 各波段间的相关性热图 |
Tab. 2 The estimation models between three traditional vegetation indices and LAI with the view zenith angles of 0 and -36表2 观测天顶角为0°和-36°时3种植被指数反演模型 |
植被指数 | 观测天顶角(°) | 线性回归方程 | 决定系数R² |
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NDVI | 0~36 | y=3.774x–0.663 y=3.549–0.594 | 0.4950.308 |
RVI | 0~36 | y=0.199x+0.938 y=0.154+1.213 | 0.3590.316 |
EVI | 0~36 | y=1.304x–0.292 y=1.507–0.324 | 0.4310.416 |
Fig. 3 The estimation models between different vegetation indices and LAI图3 不同植被指数与LAI的估算模型 |
Fig. 4 The estimation accuracy of the four estimation models图4 不同植被指数LAI估算模型精度 |
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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