Estimation of crop gross primary production (GPP): II. Do scaled MODIS vegetation indices improve performance?

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 200, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-8

  Zhang, Qingyuan ^a,b   Cheng, Yen Ben ^b,c   Lyapustin, Alexei I ^b   Wang, Yujie ^b,d   Zhang, Xiaoyang ^e   Suyker, Andrew ^f   Verma, Shashi ^f   Shuai, Yanmin ^g   Middleton, Elizabeth M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^e SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^g Earth Resources Technology Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Daily GPP; FAPARchl; MODIS; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

CROP PERFORMANCE; MAIZE; MODIS; NDVI; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOYBEAN; VEGETATION INDEX; VEGETATION TYPE;

EID: 84907853526     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.09.003     Document Type: Article

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