Remote estimation of gross primary production in maize and support for a new paradigm based on total crop chlorophyll content

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 978-989

  Peng, Yi ^a   Gitelson, Anatoly A ^a   Keydan, Galina ^a   Rundquist, Donald C ^a   Moses, Wesley ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll content; Gross primary production; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CARBON; CROPS; VEGETATION;

ACCURATE QUANTIFICATIONS; BEST APPROXIMATIONS; CANOPY CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL CONTENTS; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RAINFED CONDITION; TOTAL CHLOROPHYLL; VEGETATION INDEX;

CHLOROPHYLL;

CARBON BUDGET; CHLOROPHYLL; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; MAIZE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PARADIGM SHIFT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION INDEX;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79959619115     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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