Predicting gross primary production from the enhanced vegetation index and photosynthetically active radiation: Evaluation and calibration

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3424-3435

  Wu, Chaoyang ^a,b   Chen, Jing M ^b   Huang, Ni ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Enhanced vegetation index (EVI); Gross primary production (GPP); MODIS; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CANOPY STRUCTURE; CLIMATE CHARACTERISTICS; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; EVERGREEN FORESTS; FLUX MEASUREMENTS; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION; MODEL CALIBRATION; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PLANT FUNCTIONAL TYPE; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SURFACE OBSERVATION; SURFACE-BASED;

CALIBRATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AREAL INTERPOLATION; BIOME; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST CANOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MODEL VALIDATION; MODIS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING;

CALIBRATION; CLIMATES; ECOSYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

EID: 81355137896     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.08.006     Document Type: Article

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