Remote estimation of grassland gross primary production during extreme meteorological seasons

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-10

  Rossini, Micol ^a   Migliavacca, Mirco ^b   Galvagno, Marta ^c   Meroni, Michele ^d   Cogliati, Sergio ^a   Cremonese, Edoardo ^c   Fava, Francesco ^a   Gitelson, Anatoly ^e   Julitta, Tommaso ^a   di Cella, Umberto Morra ^c   Siniscalco, Consolata ^f   Colombo, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell'Ambiente della Valle d'Aosta   (Italy)

^d JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Extreme events; Grassland; Gross primary production; Potential photosynthetically active radiation; PRI; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; EDDY COVARIANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRASSLAND; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION INDEX;

EID: 84897505864     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2013.12.008     Document Type: Article

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