@article {Raffy:2004:0143-1161:3073, title = "On the LAI of mixed soils-forests regions", journal = "International Journal of Remote Sensing", parent_itemid = "infobike://tandf/tres", publishercode ="tandf", year = "2004", volume = "25", number = "15", publication date ="2004-08-01T00:00:00", pages = "3073-3090", itemtype = "ARTICLE", issn = "0143-1161", eissn = "1366-5901", url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/tres/2004/00000025/00000015/art00010", doi = "doi:10.1080/01431160310001632693", author = "Raffy, M. and Soudani, K.", abstract = "In homogeneous forest textures, it has been recently confirmed experimentally that, for sufficiently large ground surfaces, the Leaf Area Index (LAI) has weak variations with respect to ground surface variations. This allows computing the LAI of mixed pixels on regions composed of forests and soils, with the use of the Perpendicular Vegetation Index (PVI). In the present paper, we study the accuracy of the method with experimental data.", }