Understanding vegetation response to climate variability from space: The scientific objectives, the approach and the concept of the SPECTRA mission

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 964-966

  Menenti, Massimo ^a   Rast, Michael ^a   Baret, Frederic ^a   Mauser, Wolfram ^a   Miller, John ^a   Schaepman, Michael ^a   Schimel, David ^a   Verstraete, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTROMETERS; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; FRACTION ABSORBED PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; VEGETATION RESPONSE;

REMOTE SENSING;

PLANTS;

EID: 0036029968     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

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2. ESA, SPECTRA - Surface Processes and Ecosystem Changes Through Response Analysis. Report for Assessment. ESA SP 1275(5), 132 p, 2001.
3. Knorr, W. and M. Heimann, Uncertainties in Global Terrestrial Biosphere Modeling, Part II: Global Constraints for a Process-Based Vegetation Model, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 15 (1), 227-246, 2001.