A review of remote sensing based productivity models and their suitability for studying oil palm productivity in tropical regions

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 655-679

  Tan, Kian Pang ^a   Kanniah, Kasturi Devi ^a   Cracknell, Arthur Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

carbon; light use efficiency (LUE); models; oil palm; productivity; remote sensing; tropical regions

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CROP PRODUCTION; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; MODELING; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICAL REGION;

ELAEIS; ELAEIS GUINEENSIS;

EID: 84866496988     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133312452187     Document Type: Review

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