Vegetation productivity patterns at high northern latitudes: A multi-sensor satellite data assessment

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3147-3158

  Guay, Kevin C ^a   Beck, Pieter S A ^b   Berner, Logan T ^a,c   Goetz, Scott J ^a   Baccini, Alessandro ^a   Buermann, Wolfgang ^d  

^a WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic; Boreal; Climate change; GIMMS; MODIS NBAR; NDVI3g; Normalized difference vegetation index; SeaWiFS; SPOT D10

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; GROWING SEASON; NDVI; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPOT; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ARCTIC;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVICES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT; PROCEDURES; SPACE FLIGHT; SUNLIGHT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS; SPACECRAFT; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 84908508177     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12647     Document Type: Article

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