Recent changes in terrestrial gross primary productivity in asia from 1982 to 2011

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 6043-6062

  Ichii, Kazuhito ^a,b   Kondo, Masayuki ^a   Okabe, Yuki ^a   Ueyama, Masahito ^c   Kobayashi, Hideki ^d   Lee, Seung Jae ^e   Saigusa, Nobuko ^b   Zhu, Zaichun ^f,g,h   Myneni, Ranga B ^h  

^a FUKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^g Center for Applications of Spatial Information Technologies in Public Health   (China)

^h BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; NOAA AVHRR; Terrestrial biosphere model; Terrestrial carbon cycle

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); BIOSPHERICS; SUN; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ASIA; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; NOAA AVHRR; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; TERRESTRIAL BIOSPHERE; TERRESTRIAL CARBON CYCLE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84904636101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5116043     Document Type: Article

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