Narrowband bio-indicator monitoring of temperate forest carbon fluxes in northeastern China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 8986-9013

  Yu, Quanzhou ^a,b   Wang, Shaoqiang ^a   Mickler, Robert A ^c   Huang, Kun ^a,b   Zhou, Lei ^a   Yan, Huimin ^a   Chen, Diecong ^a,b   Han, Shijie ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon fluxes; EO 1 Hyperion; Narrowband bio indicator; Remote sensing; Temperate broad leaved Korean pine forest

Indexed keywords

CARBON FLUXES; HYPERION; NARROW BANDS; PINE FOREST; TEMPERATE FORESTS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84907478733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6098986     Document Type: Article

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