Scaling and assessment of GPP from MODIS using a combination of airborne lidar and eddy covariance measurements over jack pine forests

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 82-93

  Chasmer, L ^a   Barr, A ^b   Hopkinson, C ^c   McCaughey, H ^c   Treitz, P ^a   Black, A ^d   Shashkov, A ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c Applied Geomatics Research Group   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Airborne lidar; Eddy covariance; Forest; Gross primary production; MODIS; Pixel heterogeneity; Scaling

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES; CARBON DIOXIDE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; FLUXES; OPTICAL RADAR; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS; SPECTROMETERS; VEGETATION;

AIRBORNE LIDAR; EDDY COVARIANCE; FOREST; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION; MODIS; SCALING;

ATMOSPHERICS;

AIRBORNE SENSING; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; EDDY COVARIANCE; FOREST CANOPY; GROWING SEASON; HETEROGENEITY; LAND COVER; LIDAR; MODIS; PIXEL; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; SASKATCHEWAN;

PINUS BANKSIANA;

EID: 56949106749     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.08.009     Document Type: Article

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