Mediterranean oak forest: basis for appropriate protection strategy

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: CIPD930049

Project closed

Start date 1 May 1994

End date 30 April 1996

Funded under

• Scientific and technological cooperation between the European Community and European non-member countries, 1992-

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
France

Objective

The topic of this proposal is the determination of vegetation parameters from remote sensing data by inversion of canopy reflectance models, with test cases for several structural types.
This research is intended to be complementary to the existing studies conduced by the french (C.E.F.E.) and portuguese (L.N.E.T.I.) teams involved in the project MOST.

A rather wide set of different vegetation types is considered: coniferous and broadleaf forests of different density, scattered trees with herbaceous background.
Reflectance data from the following types of sensor is planned to use: 1. spaceborn (LANDSAT TM, SPOT) - nadir reflectances in a few spectral regions; 2. ground-based radiometer - angular distribution of reflectance in a few spectral regions; 3. ground-based high spectral resolution radiometers - in a nadir view direction or in a few direction or in a few nadir angles.

The research program includes: 1. Developing new multispectral reflectance models for vegetation canopies with special attention to individual plant structure and canopy structural inhomogeneities of stochastic or regular type.
New models will be the extension of reflectance models already existing for homogeneous vegetation (Nilson and Kuusk, 1989); Kuusk, 1993) and for forests (Nilson and Peterson, 1991).

2. Testing canopy reflectance models for various types of vegetation. For that purpose, vegetation structural and optical parameters needed as inputs for the respective reflectance model will be measured.
3. Developing methods for the inversion of canopy reflectance models to determine vegetation parameters.

4. Determination of the set of vegetation parameters that can be inferred from the reflectance data, individually for each type of vegetation and reflectance sensor.
Estimation of the need for additional or a priori information needed for a reliable inversion.
5. Measurement of vegetation parameters to test the reliability of inversion.

Subsequent results will be tested and validated using the field sites of the other participants of the MOST project.
The field works will be realized during 1994 both in France and in Estonia in order to adquire the inputs for the models.
Then results will be analyzed and presented during a scientific seminar in France on 1995

Programme(s)

• IC-PECO/COPERNICUS - Scientific and technological cooperation between the European Community and European non-member countries, 1992-

Topic(s)

• 01 - CEEC participation in ENVIRONMENT programme

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Route de Mende 1919 ; 34293 MONTPELLIER ; France
• Total cost: No data

Participants (1)

Institute of Astrophysics and Atmospheric Physics - Estonian Academy of Sciences

Estonia

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Observatory Toravere ; 2444 Tartu
• Total cost: No data