Remote sensing of grassland–shrubland vegetation water content in the shortwave domain

This study compares the ability of spectral approaches operating in the shortwave optical domain to predict absolute and relative vegetation water content (AWC and RWC, respectively) across northern prairie grassland–shrubland. We collected vegetation water content and spectral radiometer data over plots of comparable ground resolution (0.5m) at seven field sites in the Canadian mixed grass prairie in June 2004. We then aggregated observations …