Reconciling satellite with ground data to estimate forest productivity at national scales

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 276, Issue , 2012, Pages 196-208

  Hasenauer, Hubert ^a   Petritsch, Richard ^a   Zhao, Maosheng ^b   Boisvenue, Celine ^b   Running, Steven W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Austria; Forest growth; Forest management; Modeling; MODIS; NPP

Indexed keywords

AUSTRIA; BIOMASS FUNCTIONS; BIOME-BGC; DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; FLUX TOWERS; FOREST AREA; FOREST GROWTH; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST PLOTS; FOREST PRODUCTIVITY; FOREST RESEARCH; FOREST RESOURCES; GAS EXCHANGE; GROUND BASED; GROUND DATA; INPUT DATAS; INTEGRAL COMPONENTS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER SATELLITES; MODIS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; NPP; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SAMPLING POINTS; SPACE-BASED; SPIN-UP; STAND DENSITIES; VEGETATION TYPE;

ECOLOGY; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; MODELS; PRODUCTIVITY; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

FORESTRY;

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; BIOMASS; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLUX MEASUREMENT; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST RESOURCE; FORESTRY MODELING; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; GAS EXCHANGE; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; GROWTH MODELING; MODIS; NATIONAL PLANNING; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RECONSTRUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; STAND STRUCTURE;

AUSTRIA; ESTIMATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTS; GROWTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTIVITY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 84860524532     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.03.022     Document Type: Article

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