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To investigate the potential for retrieving these parameter from hyperspectral remote sensing, we have investigated plant spectral reflectance (400\u20132,500 nm, ASD FieldSpec3) for two major agricultural crops (sugar beet and spring barley) in the mid-latitudes, treated under different water and nitrogen (N) conditions in a greenhouse experiment over the growing period of 2008. Along with the spectral response, we have measured soil water content and LAI for 15 intensive measurement campaigns spread over the growing season and could demonstrate a significant response of plant reflectance characteristics to variations in water content and nutrient conditions. Linear and non-linear dimensionality analysis suggests that the full band reflectance information is well represented by the set of 28 vegetation spectral indices (SI) and most of the variance is explained by three to a maximum of eight variables. Investigation of linear dependencies between LAI and soil WC and pre-selected SI\u2019s indicate that: (1) linear regression using single SI is not sufficient to describe plant\/soil variables over the range of experimental conditions, however, some improvement can be seen knowing crop species beforehand; (2) the improvement is superior when applying multiple linear regression using three explanatory SI\u2019s approach. In addition to linear investigations, we applied the non-linear CART (Classification and Regression Trees) technique, which finally did not show the potential for any improvement in the retrieval process.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs2071702","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,7,6]],"date-time":"2010-07-06T12:56:37Z","timestamp":1278420997000},"page":"1702-1721","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":27,"title":["Retrieval of Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Soil Water Content (WC) Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing under Controlled Glass House Conditions for Spring Barley and Sugar Beet"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"2","author":[{"given":"Jaromir","family":"Borzuchowski","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Permoserstr. 15, 04115 Leipzig, Germany"}]},{"given":"Karsten","family":"Schulz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t (LMU) M\u00fcnchen, Luisenstr. 37, 80333 Munich, Germany"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2010,7,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1103","DOI":"10.1016\/S0309-1708(01)00042-2","article-title":"Relative importance of local and regional controls on coupled water, carbon, and energy fluxes","volume":"24","author":"Albertson","year":"2001","journal-title":"Adv. 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