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Table 3 Initial guesses and bounding limits required to perform the fitting of the PROSPECT models

From: Estimation of leaf traits from reflectance measurements: comparison between methods based on vegetation indices and several versions of the PROSPECT model

Variables

\(C_{c}\)

(µg/cm2)

\(C_{ab}\)

(µg/cm2)

\(C_{abc}\)

(µg/cm2)

\(C_{Anth}\)

(µg/cm2)

\(C_{m}\)

(mg/cm2)

\(C_{w}\)

(mg/cm2)

\(C_{bp}\)

\(N\)

\(R_{surf}\)

\(f_{wb}\)

Initial guess

1

10

50

60

5

12

5

0.01

1.4

0.05

0.01

2

5

20

20

1

8

1.5

0.2

2

0.1

0.2

3

50

80

90

10

40

18

0.001

1.1

0.01

0.1

Bounds

Min

0

0

0

0

1

1

0

1.01

0

0.0

Max

80

140

140

20

50

30

1

3.5

0.5

1.0

  1. List of the three initial guesses and bounding limits used to minimize the cost function for each variable. Min and Max are the minimum and maximum bounding values of each variable