An aircraft-based data analysis method for discerning individual fluxes in a heterogeneous agricultural landscape

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 481-489

  Kirby, Scott ^a   Dobosy, Ronald ^b   Williamson, Derek ^a   Dumas, Ed ^b  

^a The University of Alabama   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft; Carbon dioxide Flux; Heterogeneous; Land use; Regional scale

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AIRBORNE SURVEY; AIRCRAFT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA INTERPRETATION; EDDY COVARIANCE; FLUX MEASUREMENT; HETEROGENEITY; LAND USE; MAIZE; SOYBEAN;

MIDWEST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 39749106587     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.10.011     Document Type: Article

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