Effect of spatial heterogeneity on the validation of remote sensing based GPP estimations

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 174-175, Issue , 2013, Pages 43-53

  Gelybó, Gy ^a,b   Barcza, Z ^b,c   Kern, A ^b   Kljun, N ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BOTANY   (Hungary)

^d SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cropland; Eddy covariance; Footprint; Light use efficiency model; MODIS

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CARBON BALANCE; DOWNSCALING; EDDY COVARIANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; MODEL VALIDATION; MODIS; NDVI; NUMERICAL METHOD; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

HUNGARY;

EID: 84876344433     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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