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In this paper we describe an innovative and fast method where we use a hyperspectral pushbroom spectrometer mounted on a multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to perform such multi-angular measurements. By hovering the UAV above a surface while rotating it around its vertical axis, we were able to sample the reflectance anisotropy within the field of view of the spectrometer, covering all view azimuth directions up to a 30\u00b0 view zenith angle. We used this method to study the reflectance anisotropy of barley, potato, and winter wheat at different growth stages. The reflectance anisotropy patterns of the crops were interpreted by analysis of the parameters obtained by fitting of the Rahman-Pinty-Verstraete (RPV) model at a 5-nm interval in the 450\u2013915 nm range. To demonstrate the results of our method, we firstly present measurements of barley and winter wheat at two different growth stages. On the first measuring day, barley and winter wheat had structurally comparable canopies and displayed similar anisotropic reflectance patterns. On the second measuring day the anisotropy of crops differed significantly due to the crop-specific development of grain heads in the top layer of their canopies. Secondly, we show how the anisotropy is reduced for a potato canopy when it grows from an open row structure to a closed canopy. In this case, especially the backward scattering intensity was strongly diminished due to the decrease in shadowing effects that were caused by the potato rows that were still present on the first measuring day. The results of this study indicate that the presented method is capable of retrieving anisotropic reflectance characteristics of vegetation canopies and that it is a feasible alternative for field goniometer measurements.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs8110909","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,11,2]],"date-time":"2016-11-02T10:00:35Z","timestamp":1478080835000},"page":"909","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":36,"title":["Hyperspectral Reflectance Anisotropy Measurements Using a Pushbroom Spectrometer on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle\u2014Results for Barley, Winter Wheat, and Potato"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"given":"Peter","family":"Roosjen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University &amp; Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands"}]},{"given":"Juha","family":"Suomalainen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University &amp; Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands"}]},{"given":"Harm","family":"Bartholomeus","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University &amp; Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0046-082X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jan","family":"Clevers","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University &amp; Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,11,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"27","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rse.2006.03.002","article-title":"Reflectance quantities in optical remote sensing-definitions and case studies","volume":"103","author":"Schaepman","year":"2006","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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