Evaluating spatial and temporal patterns of MODIS GPP over the conterminous U.S. against flux measurements and a process model

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 124, Issue , 2012, Pages 717-729

  Zhang, Fangmin ^a,b   Chen, Jing M ^b   Chen, Jiquan ^c   Gough, Christopher M ^d   Martin, Timothy A ^e   Dragoni, Danilo ^f  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^f INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clumping index; Gross primary productivity; Remote sensing; Sunlit shaded leaves

Indexed keywords

BOREAL ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY SIMULATORS (BEPS); CLUMPING INDEX; EDDY COVARIANCE DATA; FLUX MEASUREMENTS; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; MODELING APPROACH; PHOTOSYNTHETIC MODEL; PROCESS MODEL; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; SUNLIT/SHADED LEAVES; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TERRESTRIAL CARBON CYCLE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING;

RADIOMETERS;

BIOME; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON CYCLE; DATA SET; EDDY COVARIANCE; FLUX MEASUREMENT; LEAF; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; MODIS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REMOTE SENSING; SHADING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864048671     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.06.023     Document Type: Article

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