Large differences in terrestrial vegetation production derived from satellite-based light use efficiency models

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 8945-8965

  Cai, Wenwen ^a   Yuan, Wenping ^a   Liang, Shunlin ^a,b   Liu, Shuguang ^c   Dong, Wenjie ^a   Chen, Yang ^a   Liu, Dan ^a   Zhang, Haicheng ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CASA; CFix; CFlux; EC LUE; Gross primary production (GPP); Light use efficiency (LUE); MODIS; VPM; VPRM

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; MODEL STRUCTURES;

CASA; CFIX; CFLUX; EC-LUE; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; MODIS; VPRM;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84907478732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6098945     Document Type: Article

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