Remote Sensing Environment An Interdisciplinary Journal VOLUME 58, NUMBER 1, OCTOBER 1996 Contents Michael Roderick, Richard Smith, and Graham Lodwick Calibrating Long-Term AVHRR-Derived NDVI Imagery S. M. Bhandari and A. K. Varma Potential of Simultaneous Dual-Frequency Radar Altimeter Measurements from TOPEX/ Poseidon for Rainfall Estimation over Oceans 13 Nan D. Walker Satellite Assessment of Mississippi River Plume Variability: Causes and Predictability 21 Josef Cihlar, Hung Ly, and Qinghan Xiao Land Cover Classification with AVHRR Multichannel Composites in Northern Environments 36 Karl-Theodor Kriebel On the Limited Validity of Reciprocity in Measured BRDFs 52 Bruce Hapke, Dominick DiMucci, Robert Nelson, and William Smythe The Cause of the Hot Spot in Vegetation Canopies and Soils: Shadow-Hiding Versus Coherent Backscatter 63 Giovanni M. Ferrari, Nicolas Hoepffner, and Marina Mingazzini Optical Properties of the Water in a Deltaic Environment: Prospective Tool to Analyze Satellite Data in Turbid Waters 69 Manuel A. Penaloza and Ronald M. Welch Feature Selection for Classification of Polar Regions Using a Fuzzy Expert System 81 Héléne Cosnefroy, Marc Leroy, and Xavier Briottet Selection and Characterization of Saharan and Arabian Desert Sites for the Calibration of Optical Satellite Sensors 101 F. Veroustraete, J. Patyn, and R. B. Myneni Estimating Net Ecosystem Exchange of Carbon Using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and an Ecosystem Model VOLUME 58, NUMBER 2, NOVEMBER 1996 Contents J. P. Gastellu-Etchegorry, V. Demarez, V. Pinel, and F. Zagolski Modeling Radiative Transfer in Heterogeneous 3-D Vegetation Canopies L. Camenen, Y. Goulas, G. Guyot, Z. G. Cerovic, G. Schmuck, and I. Moya Estimation of the Chlorophyll Fluorescence Lifetime of Plant Canopies: Validation of a Deconvolution Method Based on the Use of a 3-D Canopy Mockup Stephen V. Stehman Use of Auxiliary Data to Improve the Precision of Estimators of Thematic Map Accuracy A. Chehbouni, D. Lo Seen, E. G. Njoku, and B. M. Monteny Examination of the Difference between Radiative and Aerodynamic Surface Temperatures over Sparsely Vegetated Surfaces J. L. Privette, W. J. Emery, and D. S. Schimel Inversion of a Vegetation Reflectance Model with NOAA AVHRR Data Michel M. Verstraete, Bernard Pinty, and Ranga B. Myneni Potential and Limitations of Information Extraction on the Terrestrial Biosphere from Satellite Remote Sensing Ricardo M. Letelier and Mark R. Abbott An Analysis of Chlorophyll Fluorescence Algorithms for the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) VOLUME 58, NUMBER 3, DECEMBER 1996 Contents Aaron Moody and Curtis E. Woodcock Calibration-Based Models for Correction of Area Estimates Derived from Coarse Resolution Land-Cover Data X. Zhan, W. P. Kustas, and K. S. Humes An Intercomparison Study on Models of Sensible Heat Flux over Partial Canopy Surfaces with Remotely Sensed Surface Temperature Bo-Cai Gao NDWI-—A Normalized Difference Water Index for Remote Sensing of Vegetation Liquid Water From Space Yuji Hirosawa, Stuart E. Marsh, and Douglas H. Kliman Application of Standardized Principal Component Analysis to Land-Cover Characterization Using Multitemporal AVHRR Data Marco Mariotti, Laura Ercoli, and Alessandro Masoni Spectral Properties of Iron-Deficient Corn and Sunflower Leaves 282 Anatoly A. Gitelson, Yoram J. Kaufman, and Mark N. Merzlyak Use of a Green Channel in Remote Sensing of Global Vegetation from EOS-MODIS 289 Yunyue Yu and William J. Emery Satellite Derived Sea Surface Temperature Variability in the Western Tropical Pacific Ocean, 1992-1993 299 Z. G. Cerovic, Y. Goulas, M. Gorbunov, J.-M. Briantais, L. Camenen, and I. Moya Fluorosensing of Water Stress in Plants: Diurnal Changes of the Mean Lifetime and Yield of Chlorophyll Fluorescence, Measured Simultaneously and at Distance With a t-LIDAR and a Modified PAM-Fluorimeter, in Maize, Sugar Beet, and Kalanchoé 311 Brigitte Leblon, Lisa Gallant, and Hardy Granberg Effects of Shadowing Types on Ground-Measured Visible and Near-Infrared Shadow Reflectances 322 Aaron Moody, Sucharita Gopal, and Alan H. Strahler Artificial Neural Network Response to Mixed Pixels in Coarse-Resolution Satellite Data Author Index Subject Index Volume Contents STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULATION (Required by 39 U.S.C. 3685). 1. Publication title: Remote Sensing of Environment. 2. Publication number: 989-320. 3. Filing date: 10/01/96. 4. Issue frequency: Monthly. 5. Number of issues published annually: 12. 6. Annual subscription price: $1236. 7. 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