Retrieving leaf area index using a genetic algorithm with a canopy radiative transfer model |
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Authors: | Hongliang FangShunlin Liang Andres Kuusk |
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Affiliation: | a Laboratory of Global Remote Sensing Studies, Department of Geography, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA b Tartu Observatory, 61602 Tõravere, Estonia |
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Abstract: | Leaf area index (LAI) is an important structural property of vegetation canopy and is also one of the basic quantities driving the algorithms used in regional and global biogeochemical, ecological and meteorological applications. LAI can be estimated from remotely sensed data through the vegetation indices (VI) and the inversion of a canopy radiative transfer (RT) model. In recent years, applications of the genetic algorithms (GA) to a variety of optimization problems in remote sensing have been successfully demonstrated. In this study, we estimated LAI by integrating a canopy RT model and the GA optimization technique. This method was used to retrieve LAI from field measured reflectance as well as from atmospherically corrected Landsat ETM+ data. Four different ETM+ band combinations were tested to evaluate their effectiveness. The impacts of using the number of the genes were also examined. The results were very promising compared with field measured LAI data, and the best results were obtained with three genes in which the R2 is 0.776 and the root-mean-square error (RMSE) 1.064. |
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Keywords: | Leaf area index Genetic algorithms Radiative transfer Inversion Landsat-7 ETM+ |
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