Use of digital webcam images to track spring green-up in a deciduous broadleaf forest

Oecologia

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 323-334

  Richardson, Andrew D ^a   Jenkins, Julian P ^a   Braswell, Bobby H ^a   Hollinger, David Y ^b   Ollinger, Scott V ^a   Smith, Marie Louise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

AmeriFlux; Bartlett Experimental Forest; Broadband normalized difference vegetation index; Digital camera; Eddy covariance; Phenology

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; BROADBAND DATA; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DIGITAL IMAGE; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TRAJECTORY;

ARTICLE; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERNET; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; TREE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; INTERNET; PHOTOGRAPHY; SEASONS; TREES;

BARTLETT EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; NEW HAMPSHIRE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WHITE MOUNTAIN NATIONAL FOREST;

EID: 34248221556     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0657-z     Document Type: Article

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