Improved modeling of land surface phenology using MODIS land surface reflectance and temperature at evergreen needleleaf forests of central North America

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 176, Issue , 2016, Pages 152-162

  Liu, Yuxia ^a,b   Wu, Chaoyang ^a   Peng, Dailiang ^a   Xu, Shiguang ^a   Gonsamo, Alemu ^c   Jassal, Rachhpal S ^d   Altaf Arain, M ^e   Lu, Linlin ^a   Fang, Bin ^f   Chen, Jing M ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

EVI; MODIS; NDVI; Needleleaf forests; Phenology; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BIOLOGY; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; VEGETATION;

ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; LONG TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH NETWORKS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER DATUM; MODIS; NDVI; NEEDLELEAF FORESTS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PHENOLOGY;

FORESTRY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; EVERGREEN FOREST; FLUX MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION INDEX; VIDEOGRAPHY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84955598718     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.01.021     Document Type: Article

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