Calibration of MODIS-based gross primary production over an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 157-168

  Fu, Gang ^a,b   Shen, Zhenxi ^a   Zhang, Xianzhou ^a   Shi, Peili ^a   He, Yongtao ^a   Zhang, Yangjian ^a   Sun, Wei ^a   Wu, Jianshuang ^a,b   Zhou, Yuting ^a,b   Pan, Xu ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALPINE MEADOW; DATA SETS; DEFAULT VALUES; EDDY COVARIANCE MEASUREMENTS; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS LAI; NET EFFECT; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; SURFACE METEOROLOGICAL DATA; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIBETAN PLATEAU; VAPOR PRESSURE DEFICIT;

ALGORITHMS; METEOROLOGY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 84865737049     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m12-023     Document Type: Article

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