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  SPECIAL ISSUE:

  Grassland PROtotype Validation Experiment (PROVE)
  Remote Sensing of Environment
  Volume 74, Issue 1, October, 2000

    Editors: Jeff Privette and Fred Huemmrich
    NASA GSFC
    Code 923 / Biospheric Science Branch
    Greenbelt MD  20771-0001

pp 1-12
The EOS Prototype Validation Exercise (PROVE) at Jornada - Overview and Lessons Learned J.L. Privette, G.P. Asner, J. Conel, K.F. Huemmrich, R. Olson, A. Rango, A.F. Rahman, K. Thome, E.A. Walter-Shea

pp 13-25
Jornada Experimental Range - A Unique Arid Land Location for Experiments to Validate Satellite Systems K.M. Havstad, W.P. Kustas, A. Rango, J.C. Ritchie, T.J. Schmugge

pp 26-44
Morphological Characteristics of Shrub Coppice Dunes in Desert Grasslands of Southern New Mexico derived from Scanning LIDAR A. Rango, M. Chopping, J. Ritchie, K. Havstad, W. Kustas, T. Schmugge

pp 45-57
Measuring Fractional Cover and Leaf Area Index in Arid Ecosystems - Digital Camera, Radiation Transmittance, and Laser Altimetry Methods M.A. White, G.P. Asner, R.R. Nemani, J.L. Privette, S.W. Running

pp 58-68
Characterizing the Spatial Variability of Broadband Albedo in a Semidesert Environment for MODIS Validation M.J. Barnsley, P.D. Hobson, A.H. Hyman, W. Lucht, J.-P. Muller, A.H. Strahler

pp 69-84
Impact of Tissue, Canopy, and Landscape Factors on the Hyperspectral Reflectance Variability of Arid Ecosystems G.P. Asner, C.A. Wessman, C.A. Bateson, J.L. Privette

pp 85-98
A Comparison of Satellite-Derived Spectral Albedos to Ground-Based Broadband Albedo Measurements Modeled to Satellite Spatial Scale for a Semidesert Landscape W. Lucht, A.H. Hyman, A.H. Strahler, M.J. Barnsley, P. Hobson, J.-P. Muller

pp 99-112
A Biogeophysical Approach for Automated SWIR Unmixing of Soils and Vegetation G.P. Asner, D.B. Lobell

pp 113-124
A Coupled Vegetation-Soil Bidirectional Reflectance Model for a Semiarid Landscape W. Ni, X. Li

pp 125-144
Stochastic Modeling of Radiation Regime in Discontinuous Vegetation Canopies N.V. Shabanov, Y. Knyazikhin, F. Baret, R.B. Myneni

pp 145-162
3-D Scene Modeling of Semidesert Vegetation Cover and its Radiation Regime W. Qin*, S.A.W. Gerstl

pp 163-191
Large-Scale BRDF Retrieval over New Mexico with a Multiangular NOAA AVHRR Dataset M.J. Chopping