Training Module on Monitoring Vegetation From Space

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• 3 - Satellite sensors and vegetation
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• 3.1 - Spectral response of different surfaces
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• 3.2 - Fundamental factors affecting vegetation reflectance
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• 3.3 - The importance of spectral resolution
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• 3.4 - Satellite sensors sensitive to vegetation
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• 3.5 - RGB images

3.4 - Satellite sensors sensitive to vegetation

Given the interaction between vegetation and radiation analysed throughout the previous sections, the monitoring of vegetation requires sensors with bands/channels within following domains: VIS, NIR, MIR.

Figure 3.10: Bands/channels suitable to retrieve vegetation information.

For detailed information about the different sensors used to retrieve vegetation parmeters please consult Satellite Operator - spectral channels.doc