Carbon cycling of European croplands: A framework for the assimilation of optical and microwave Earth observation data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 137, Issue , 2013, Pages 84-93

  Revill, Andrew ^a   Sus, Oliver ^a   Barrett, Brian ^a   Williams, Mathew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture Remote Sensing; Crop carbon cycling; Crop modelling; Data assimilation; LAI retrieval

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLING; DATA ASSIMILATION; EARTH OBSERVATION DATA; EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE; HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES; LAI RETRIEVAL; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE;

CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS; ESTIMATION; OBSERVATORIES; RADAR EQUIPMENT; RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DATA PROCESSING;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON FLUX; CEREAL; CLOUD COVER; DATA ASSIMILATION; LEAF AREA INDEX; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; OPTICAL METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 84880355731     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.06.002     Document Type: Article

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