@article{MestreRunge:76161,
      author        = "Mestre Runge, Christian and Lloveria Montorio, Raquel",
      title         = "{MODELIZACIÓN EMPÍRICA DEL ÍNDICE DE ÁREA FOLIAR EN
                       ECOSISTEMAS DE DEHESA: INTEGRACIÓN DE DATOS DE CAMPO,
                       AEROPORTADOS Y DE SATÉLITE}",
      year          = "2018",
      note          = "The leaf area index is considered a bioindicator of the
                       state of the real health of the plants and the gross
                       primary productivity of the vegetation. Numerous studies
                       have shown that models based on linear simple regression
                       are optimal tools that have the ability to relate the LAI
                       measured in the field with information derived from optical
                       remote sensing. The objective of the present Master's
                       Thesis is to develop a predictive model of LAI from of
                       multispectral information of medium spatial resolution
                       (Landsat) from the analysis and previous modeling of the
                       relationships between hyper-spectral information at high
                       spatial resolution and truth-ground LAI using the upcaling
                       technique and, developed for heterogeneous environments
                       such as dehesas. For this purpose, hyperspectral data
                       derived from the CASI sensor and LAI data measured in the
                       field provided by SynerTGE and a range of Vegetation
                       indices derived from the Landsat TM and OLI products were
                       used. A first analysis was based on establishing empirical
                       relationships between pseudo-LAI and vegetation in-dices.
                       To further evaluate the performance of the model,
                       regression analysis (RLS) was applied to model the
                       relationship between pseudo-LAI and vegetation indices. The
                       results established that the proposed method varies
                       depending on the models used. On the other hand, a model
                       was developed to i) apply and model the predictive
                       functions generated by the RLS analyzes and, ii) validate
                       the products using the RMSE statistic. For this,
                       multitemporal series derived from Landast-8 OLI and LAI
                       total and LAI green samples distributed over 5 field days
                       were used, in each plot (11), samples were taken over 3
                       quadrants (25x25cm), in addition, samples taken are
                       considered, a priori, representative of different moments
                       of the phenological dynamics. The obtained results
                       establish that the predictive models yield better for
                       spring-summer periods, when the grassland is in its period
                       of maximum growth. In addition, the model developed on
                       grass and holm oaks yields better than model A. If we
                       individualize the cases, it is established that the
                       predictive model as of June 28, 2015 obtained the best
                       values RMSE = 0.196 and RMSE (%) = 6.73 to predict the
                       bio-physical variable LAI green.",
}