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Performances were evaluated with ground measurements from the SEN3EXP field campaign over a range of crops. Results showed that the optimal band selection includes four spectral bands: one centered about 970 nm absorption feature which is sensible to Cw, and three bands in green, red and near infrared to estimate LAI and compensate from leaf- and canopy-level effects. A simple neural network with a single hidden layer of five tangent sigmoid transfer functions trained over PROSAIL radiative transfer simulations showed benefits in the retrieval performances compared with a look up table inversion approach (root mean square error of 0.16 kg\/m2 vs. 0.22 kg\/m2). The neural network inversion approach showed a good agreement and performances similar to an empirical up-scaling approach based on a multivariate iteratively re-weighted least squares algorithm, demonstrating the applicability of radiative transfer model inversion methods to CHRIS\/PROBA for high spatial resolution monitoring of CWC.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs5105265","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,10,21]],"date-time":"2013-10-21T14:49:22Z","timestamp":1382366962000},"page":"5265-5284","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["Empirical and Physical Estimation of Canopy Water Content from CHRIS\/PROBA Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"5","author":[{"given":"Jesus","family":"Cernicharo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"EOLAB, Parc Cient\u00edfic Universitat de Val\u00e8ncia, C\/ Catedr\u00e0tic Jos\u00e9 Beltr\u00e1n, 2, E-46980 Paterna, Spain"}]},{"given":"Aleixandre","family":"Verger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Global Ecology Unit, CREAF-CEAB-CSIC-UAB, E-08193 Cerdanyola del Vall\u00e9s, Spain"},{"name":"EMMAH-UMR 1114-INRA UAPV, Domain Saint Paul, Site Agroparc, F-84914 Avignon, France"}]},{"given":"Fernando","family":"Camacho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"EOLAB, Parc Cient\u00edfic Universitat de Val\u00e8ncia, C\/ Catedr\u00e0tic Jos\u00e9 Beltr\u00e1n, 2, E-46980 Paterna, Spain"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,10,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"23","DOI":"10.1016\/0034-4257(80)90096-6","article-title":"Remote sensing of leaf water content in the near infrared","volume":"10","author":"Tucker","year":"1980","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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