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Estimation and comparison of leaf area index of agricultural crops using irs liss-III and EO-1 hyperion images

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Motivated by the increasingly availability and importance of hyperspectral remote sensing data, this study aims to determine whether current generation narrowband hyperspectral remote sensing data could be used to estimate vegetation Leaf Area Index (LAI) accurately than the traditional broadband multispectral data. A comparative study has been carried out to evaluate the performance of the narrowband Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDV1) derived from Hyperion hyperspectral sensor with that of derived from IRS LISS-III for the estimation of LAI of some major agricultural crops (e.g. cotton, sugarcane and rice) in part of Guntur district, India. It has been found that the narrowband NDVI derived from Hyperion has shown better results over its counterpart derived from broadband LISS-III. Linear regression models have been used which with selected subsets of individual Hyperion bands performed better to predict LAI than those based on the broadband datasets, although the potential to overfit models using the large number of available Hyperion bands is a concern for further research.

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    N. Rama Rao, P. K. Garg & S. K. Ghosh

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Rao, N.R., Garg, P.K. & Ghosh, S.K. Estimation and comparison of leaf area index of agricultural crops using irs liss-III and EO-1 hyperion images. J Indian Soc Remote Sens 34, 69–78 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02990748

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