Assimilating canopy reflectance data into an ecosystem model with an Ensemble Kalman Filter

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1347-1364

  Quaife, Tristan ^a   Lewis, Philip ^a   De Kauwe, Martin ^a   Williams, Mathew ^b   Law, Beverly E ^c   Disney, Mathias ^a   Bowyer, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ecosystem modelling; MODIS; Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEMS; KALMAN FILTERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CANOPY REFLECTANCE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELLING; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION; MODIS; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY; TERRESTRIAL CARBON DYNAMICS;

DATA ACQUISITION;

CANOPY REFLECTANCE; CARBON CYCLE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EDDY COVARIANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; MODIS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

EID: 40649116915     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.05.020     Document Type: Article

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