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Contents<br />

3.4.4 Accounting for angular anisotropy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72<br />

3.5 Conclusions <strong>and</strong> preface to Chapter 4 <strong>and</strong> 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74<br />

4 Validating CRASh at ground <strong>and</strong> airborne level: grassl<strong>and</strong> characterization<br />

using field spectrometer <strong>and</strong> HyMap data 77<br />

4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77<br />

4.1.1 Preceding grassl<strong>and</strong> studies using imaging spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . 78<br />

4.1.2 Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79<br />

4.2 Study site <strong>and</strong> data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79<br />

4.2.1 Study site Waging-Taching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79<br />

4.2.2 Ground validation measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81<br />

4.2.2.1 Configuration <strong>of</strong> ground sampling locations . . . . . . . . . . . . 81<br />

4.2.2.2 Leaf area index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81<br />

4.2.2.3 Leaf dry matter <strong>and</strong> water content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84<br />

4.2.2.4 Comparing results obtained with direct <strong>and</strong> indirect LAI sampling 85<br />

4.2.2.5 Field spectrometer measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86<br />

4.2.3 HyMap imaging spectrometer measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88<br />

4.2.3.1 Sensor characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88<br />

4.2.3.2 Flight configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89<br />

4.2.3.3 Geometric correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89<br />

4.2.3.4 Calibration <strong>and</strong> atmospheric correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91<br />

4.3 Exploring algorithm potential <strong>and</strong> constraints using field spectrometer data . . . 92<br />

4.3.1 Spectral field characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93<br />

4.3.2 Comparing modeled with measured reflectance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94<br />

4.3.3 Correlation between canopy variables <strong>and</strong> waveb<strong>and</strong>s . . . . . . . . . . . . 95<br />

4.3.4 Stepwise integration <strong>of</strong> algorithm components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97<br />

4.3.4.1 Influence <strong>of</strong> l<strong>and</strong> cover classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99<br />

4.3.4.2 Quantifying spectral covariance <strong>and</strong> the influence <strong>of</strong> sensor configuration<br />

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100<br />

4.3.4.3 Introducing prior information on variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 104<br />

4.3.4.4 Introducing covariance between the variables . . . . . . . . . . . 105<br />

4.3.4.5 Integrating a priori estimates based on predictive regression functions<br />

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106<br />

4.3.4.6 Comparing predictions based on regression functions with final<br />

RTM estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108<br />

4.3.5 Exploring additional regularization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109<br />

4.3.5.1 Estimating biochemicals at canopy level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110<br />

4.3.5.2 Coupling Cw with Cdm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111<br />

4.3.6 Model sensitivity to LUT parametrization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112<br />

4.3.6.1 Reproducibility <strong>of</strong> estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112<br />

4.3.6.2 Dependence on variable ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114<br />

4.3.7 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117<br />

4.4 RTM inversion applied to HyMap flight lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121<br />

4.4.1 Accounting for spectral anisotropy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122<br />

4.4.1.1 Quantifying spectral anisotropy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122<br />

4.4.1.2 Incorporating view angle information in model inversion . . . . . 125<br />

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