Assessment of regional biomass-soil relationships using vegetation indexes

Author

Lozano-García, D. Fabián ; Fernández, R. Norberto ; Johannsen, Chris J.

Author_Institution

Lab. for Appl. of Remote Sensing, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

Volume

29

Issue

2

fYear

1991

fDate

3/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

331

Lastpage

339

Abstract

The development of photosynthetic active biomass in different ecological conditions, as indicated by normalized difference vegetation indices (NDVIs) is compared by performing a stratified sampling (based on soil associations) on data acquired over Indiana. Data from the NOAA-10 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) were collected for the 1987 and 1988 growing seasons. An NDVI transformation was performed using the two optical bands of the sensor (0.58-0.68 μm and 0.72-1.10 μm). The NDVI is related to the amount of active photosynthetic biomass present on the ground. Statistical analysis of results indicate that land-cover types (forest, forest/pasture, and crops), soil texture, and soil water-holding capacity have an important effect on vegetation biomass changes as measured by AVHRR data

Keywords

agriculture; forestry; geophysical techniques; remote sensing; soil; 500 to 1100 nm; AD 1987; AD 1988; AVHRR; Indiana; USA; United States; agriculture; forest; infrared; measurement; microwave radiometry; optical; photosynthetic active biomass; regional biomass-soil relationships; remote sensing; technique; vegetation indexes; Biomass; Biomedical optical imaging; Biosensors; Crops; Optical sensors; Radiometry; Sampling methods; Soil; Statistical analysis; Vegetation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0196-2892

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/36.73676

Filename

73676