A comprehensive assessment of MODIS-derived GPP for forest ecosystems using the site-level FLUXNET database

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 5907-5918

  Tang, Xuguang ^a,b   Li, Hengpeng ^a   Huang, Ni ^b   Li, Xinyan ^a   Xu, Xibao ^a   Ding, Zhi ^c   Xie, Jing ^d  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Assessment; Forest ecosystem; Grow primary production; MOD17A2

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME MEASUREMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ASSESSMENT; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; MOD17A2; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOME; CARBON CYCLE; DATABASE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MODIS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84941182085     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4615-0     Document Type: Article

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