A continuous satellite-derived measure of global terrestrial primary production

BioScience

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 547-560

  Running, Steven W ^a   Nemani, Ramakrishna R ^b   Heinsch, Faith Ann ^a   Zhao, Maosheng ^a   Reeves, Matt ^a   Hashimoto, Hirofumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosphere; Carbon cycles; MODIS; Net primary production; Terrestrial remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942618334     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0547:ACSMOG]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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