Exploring simple algorithms for estimating gross primary production in forested areas from satellite data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 303-326

  Hashimoto, Hirofumi ^a,b   Wang, Weile ^a,b   Milesi, Cristina ^a,b   White, Michael A ^c   Ganguly, Sangram ^b,d   Gamo, Minoru ^e   Hirata, Ryuichi ^f   Myneni, Ranga B ^g   Nemani, Ramakrishna R ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BAY AREA ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^f HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EVI; GPP; LAI; MODIS; NDVI

Indexed keywords

EVI; GPP; LAI; MODIS; NDVI;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TOWERS; VEGETATION;

ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; PLANTS; RADIO; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION; SATELLITES;

EID: 84863279789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4010303     Document Type: Article

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