Estimating northern peatland CO2 exchange from MODIS time series data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1178-1189

  Schubert, Per ^a   Eklundh, Lars ^a   Lund, Magnus ^a   Nilsson, Mats ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ecosystem respiration (ER); Enhanced vegetation index (EVI); Gross primary productivity (GPP); Land surface temperature (LST); Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); Net ecosystem exchange (NEE); Peatland; Photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD)

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM RESPIRATION; ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; PEATLAND; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PHOTON FLUX DENSITIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CURVE FITTING; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FORESTRY; PHOTONS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRODUCTIVITY; RADIOMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSORS; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; SPECTROMETERS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME SERIES; WETLANDS;

VEGETATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GAS EXCHANGE; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PEATLAND; PHOTON FLUX DENSITY; RESPIRATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION INDEX;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATION; SENSORS; SPECTROMETERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE; WETLANDS;

SWEDEN;

EID: 77949489151     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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