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Database of optical and structural data for the validation of forest radiative transfer models

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Recent advances in airborne and spaceborne scanner technologies have been providing vast amounts of multispectral and multi-angular remote sensing data of different spatial and radiometric resolution over the Earth’s vegetation. Remote sensing of forests has been one of the major interest in the remote sensing of environment, because forests impact climate, provide different kind of resources for the economy, are related to biodiversity and, on the other hand, are threatened by several anthropogenic factors and disturbances.

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Kuusk, A., Lang, M., Kuusk, J. (2013). Database of optical and structural data for the validation of forest radiative transfer models. In: Light Scattering Reviews 7. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21907-8_4

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