Remote sensing-based biomass estimation and its spatio-temporal variations in temperate Grassland, Northern China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1496-1513

  Jin, Yunxiang ^a   Yang, Xiuchun ^a   Qiu, Jianjun ^a   Li, Jinya ^a   Gao, Tian ^b   Wu, Qiong ^c   Zhao, Fen ^a   Ma, Hailong ^a   Yu, Haida ^a   Xu, Bin ^a  

^a China Agricultural Academy of Science   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^c INNER MONGOLIA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomass; MODIS; Temperate grassland; Vegetation index; Xilingol

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894608332     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6021496     Document Type: Article

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