An evaluation of MODIS 8- and 16-day composite products for monitoring maize green leaf area index

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 161, Issue , 2012, Pages 15-25

  Guindin Garcia, Noemi ^a   Gitelson, Anatoly A ^b   Arkebauer, Timothy J ^a   Shanahan, John ^c   Weiss, Albert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Green leaf area index; Maize; MODIS; Temporal resolution; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE; CROP YIELD; LEAF AREA INDEX; MAIZE; MODIS; PHENOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE DATA; VEGETATION INDEX;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84859651516     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.03.012     Document Type: Article

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