Modelling carbon fluxes of different forests by coupling a remote-sensing model with an ecosystem process model

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 6539-6567

  Wang, Junbang ^a   Liu, Jiyuan ^a   Cao, Mingkui ^a   Liu, Yunfeng ^a   Yu, Guirui ^a   Li, Guicai ^b   Shuhua, Q ^c   Li, Kerang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^c JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CARBON; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECOSYSTEM RESPIRATION; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING MODELS; SEASONAL DYNAMICS; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CARBON BUDGET; CARBON FLUX; FOREST; HETEROGENEITY; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; RESPIRATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; RESPIRATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION;

EID: 82055164218     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.512933     Document Type: Article

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