Linking near-surface and satellite remote sensing measurements of deciduous broadleaf forest phenology

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 117, Issue , 2012, Pages 307-321

  Hufkens, Koen ^a   Friedl, Mark ^a   Sonnentag, Oliver ^c   Braswell, Bobby H ^d   Milliman, Thomas ^d   Richardson, Andrew D ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital camera; MODIS; PhenoCam; Validation; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

BROADLEAF FOREST; CARBON CYCLING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONTINENTAL SCALE; COVARIATION; DATA SOURCE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; FOREST CANOPIES; HIGH-QUALITY MEASUREMENTS; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; LAND SURFACE PHENOLOGY; LEAF PHENOLOGY; MODERATE RESOLUTION; MODIS; NEAR-SURFACE; PHENOCAM; PHENOPHASE; PLANT PHENOLOGY; RED GREEN BLUES; REGIONAL LANDSCAPES; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING MEASUREMENTS; VALIDATION; VEGETATION INDEX; VEGETATION INDICES; VEGETATION PHENOLOGY;

BIOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIGITAL CAMERAS; PHENOLS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOREST CANOPY; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSOR; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION INDEX;

CAMERAS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; LIFE CYCLE; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84855434315     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.10.006     Document Type: Article

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