Combining remote sensing data with process modelling to monitor boreal conifer forest carbon balances

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3985-3994

  Smith, Benjamin ^a   Knorr, Wolfgang ^b   Widlowski, Jean Luc ^c   Pinty, Bernard ^c   Gobron, Nadine ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Ecosystem model; Forest growth; Kyoto Protocol; Light use efficiency; LPJ GUESS; NPP; Satellite remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEMS; GROWTH KINETICS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELS; KYOTO PROTOCOL; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION (NPP); SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING;

FORESTRY;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA PROCESSING; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOREST INVENTORY; FORESTRY MODELING; KYOTO PROTOCOL; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING; STAND STRUCTURE;

CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 46549088672     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.03.056     Document Type: Article

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