Relationships between gross primary production, green LAI, and canopy chlorophyll content in maize: Implications for remote sensing of primary production

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 144, Issue , 2014, Pages 65-72

  Gitelson, Anatoly A ^a   Peng, Yi ^a,c   Arkebauer, Timothy J ^b   Schepers, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll; Green leaf area index; Gross primary production; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; DETERMINATION COEFFICIENTS; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION; LEAF AREA INDEX; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PIGMENTS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC SYSTEMS; QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES;

PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REMOTE SENSING;

CHLOROPHYLL;

BIOPHYSICS; CHLOROPHYLL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GROWING SEASON; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LEAF AREA INDEX; MAIZE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; REMOTE SENSING;

NEBRASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84893498266     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.01.004     Document Type: Article

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