Upscaling leaf area index in an Arctic landscape through multiscale observations

Global Change Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1517-1530

  Williams, Mat ^a   Bell, R ^a   Spadavecchia, L ^a   Street, L E ^a   Van Wijk, M T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arctic; Data assimilation; Geostatistics; Kriging; LAI; Landsat; NDVI; Remote sensing; Semivariogram; Tundra

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; GEOSTATISTICS; GLOBAL CHANGE; KRIGING; LANDSAT; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODELING; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARCTIC;

EID: 44849125486     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01590.x     Document Type: Article

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