Modeling growing season phenology in North American forests using seasonal mean vegetation indices from MODIS

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 147, Issue , 2014, Pages 79-88

  Wu, Chaoyang ^a,b   Gonsamo, Alemu ^b   Gough, Christopher M ^c   Chen, Jing M ^b   Xu, Shiguang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest; Growing season transitions; MODIS; Phenology; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION;

ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; FOREST; GROWING SEASON; LAND SURFACE WATER INDEX; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER DATUM; MODIS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PHENOLOGY;

FORESTRY;

CARBON CYCLE; FOREST CANOPY; GROWING SEASON; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES; TRACKING; VEGETATION INDEX;

BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; PHENOLOGY; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84896464250     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.03.001     Document Type: Article

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