Integrating remote sensing and ecosystem process models for landscape- to regional-scale analysis of the carbon cycle

BioScience

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 573-584

  Turner, David P ^a   Ollinger, Scott V ^b   Kimball, John S ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon flux; Landscape; Models; Regional; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942532259     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0573:IRSAEP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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