Scaling Gross Primary Production (GPP) over boreal and deciduous forest landscapes in support of MODIS GPP product validation

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 256-270

  Turner, David P ^a   Ritts, William D ^a   Cohen, Warren B ^b   Gower, Stith T ^c   Zhao, Maosheng ^d   Running, Steve W ^d   Wofsy, Steven C ^e   Urbanski, Shawn ^e   Dunn, Allison L ^e   Munger, J W ^e  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biome BGC; Boreal forest; Deciduous forest; Eddy covariance; FPAR; Gross primary production; Light use efficiency; MODIS; Validation

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; METEOROLOGY; RADAR; RADIOMETERS; VEGETATION;

EDDY COVARIANCE FLUX; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION (GPP);

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EDDY COVARIANCE; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; MODIS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

RICKETTSIA SP. PAR;

EID: 10744233504     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2003.06.005     Document Type: Article

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