Using LiDAR and quickbird data to model plant production and quantify uncertainties associated with wetland detection and land cover generalizations

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2366-2379

  Cook, Bruce D ^a   Bolstad, Paul V ^a   Næsset, Erik ^b   Anderson, Ryan S ^c   Garrigues, Sebastian ^d   Morisette, Jeffrey T ^e   Nickeson, Jaime ^a   Davis, Kenneth J ^f  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d CNES   (France)

^e FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon use efficiency; Digital hemispheric photography; Eddy covariance; Leaf area index (LAI); Light use efficiency; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); Primary production

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL HEMISPHERIC PHOTOGRAPHY; EDDY COVARIANCE; LEAF AREA INDEX (LAI); LIGHT-USE EFFICIENCY; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS); PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FORESTRY; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RADIOMETERS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROMETERS; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VAPOR PRESSURE; WETLANDS;

ATMOSPHERICS;

ALGORITHM; DETECTION METHOD; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAND COVER; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIDAR; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; MODIS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUICKBIRD; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL VARIATION;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 70349164857     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.06.017     Document Type: Article

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