Assessing and predicting biodiversity in a floodplain ecosystem: Assimilation of net primary production derived from imaging spectrometer data into a dynamic vegetation model

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2118-2130

  Kooistra, Lammert ^a   Wamelink, Wieger ^a   Schaepman Strub, Gabriela ^a   Schaepman, Michael ^a   van Dobben, Han ^a   Aduaka, Uchenna ^b   Batelaan, Okke ^c,d  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Dynamic vegetation model; Imaging spectrometer; Net primary production; PRI; River floodplain

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VEGETATION;

DYNAMIC VEGETATION MODELS (DVM); ECOSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; RIVER FLOODPLAINS;

BIODIVERSITY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; FLOODPLAIN; IMAGING METHOD; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER MANAGEMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECTROMETER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; RHINE RIVER; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 41449083053     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.10.010     Document Type: Article

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