Satellite observation of tropical forest seasonality: Spatial patterns of carbon exchange in Amazonia

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Xu, Liang ^a   Saatchi, Sassan S ^a,b   Yang, Yan ^a,c   Myneni, Ranga B ^c   Frankenberg, Christian ^b   Chowdhury, Diya ^a   Bi, Jian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

amazonia; fluorescence; GPP; pheno region; remote sensing; tropical forest; vegetation seasonality

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TROPICS;

AMAZONIA; GPP; PHENO-REGION; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION SEASONALITY;

FORESTRY;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CARBON FLUX; FLUORESCENCE; LEAF; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PHENOLOGY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION COVER;

BRAZIL; CARBON DIOXIDE; FLUORESCENCE; FORESTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AMAZON BASIN; AMAZONIA;

EID: 84938702365     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/8/084005     Document Type: Article

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