Potential of the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) onboard the Sentinel-5 Precursor for the monitoring of terrestrial chlorophyll fluorescence

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1337-1352

  Guanter, L ^a   Aben, I ^b   Tol, P ^b   Krijger, J M ^b   Hollstein, A ^a   Kohler P ^a   Damm, A ^c   Joiner, J ^d   Frankenberg, C ^e   Landgraf, J ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUORESCENCE; GOME; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PIGMENT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TROPOSPHERE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 84925400265     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-8-1337-2015     Document Type: Article

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